Talk:Kaldan

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It's Galdan, not Kaldan, who was defeated by the Qing emperor Kangxi.

The Chinese TV Series portrayed Galdan as to have demanded Kanxi's eldest daughter as a hostage and wife while having political ambition to recover Dadu (i.e. Beijing) the Mongol capital of the Yuan Dynasty of 500 years ago. The Series showed that Kangxi mounted several westernward military campaigns, including a personal lead, starting 1679 to hunt Galdan after Galdan started to show his political ambition with the invasion of Kashgar. Galdan was finally eliminated in 1697, and central Asia (i.e. present-day Xinjiang) was hence incorporated into Kangxi's Qing Empire with the promise of peace and acceptance to the other Mongol khans and chiefs. Is this historical?

Sam.

There's already THIS page on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdan Please merge the two pages.

Basil II