Jinchuan County (金川县), in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan
The suppression of the Jinchuan hill people was the costliest and most difficult, and also the most destructive.
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The other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established – two wars to suppress the Jinchuan rebels in Sichuan, another to suppress rebels in Taiwan (1787–1788), and four expeditions abroad against the Burmese (1765–1769), the Vietnamese (1788–1789), and the warlike Gurkhas in Nepal on the border between Tibet and India (1790–1792), the last counting as two.