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Lindley, as commander of the Taiping fleet, several times defeated the Qing offensive and sank many Qing warships, but he was wounded, and his wife Marie and friend Earl were killed in action. For his service, Lindley was promoted to the rank of colonel by the Taiping.
H. Hookham introduces Augustus F. Lindley, a contemporary and opponent of General Gordon’s, who served the Taipings during their nineteenth century rebellion against the Manchu dynasty.
Written as a plea to the British people and Parliament, Lindley accused the government in the Cape, especially its governors, as having acted irresponsibly and dishonourably in their efforts to control the resources in Griqualand.
Augustus Frederick Lindley (呤唎), was a Royal Navy officer who, along with his wife Mary, joined the 1860 Taiping reform movement in China. He trained Taiping soldiers using modern techniques, and Mary became a sniper.
Augustus Frederick Lindley. Naval officer, adventurer, and writer; author of History of the Taiping Revolution (1866), in which he and his Portuguese wife, Marie, participated. Travelled to South Africa after her death on gold-hunting expeditions.
Augustus Frederick Lindley (1840–73) actively fought for them and believed devotedly in their cause. Led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, they rose up against the ruling Qing dynasty in an attempt to force social, commercial and religious reforms, but were eventually brutally crushed with the aid of British and French forces.
4 Augustus F. Lindley, Ti-ping Tien Kwoh: the history of the Ti-ping revolution (London, Day and Son, 1866). Lindley’s two volumes were republished in a one-volume facsimile edition by Praeger in New York in 1970.
