The Battle at Oroi-jalatu 1770 Jacques Philippe Le Bas French Illustrated here is a daring night raid on a Dzungar camp, conducted in 1756 by the Manchu general Zhaohui (1708-1764). The Dzungars, however, subsequently besieged the Qing forces, forcing them to retreat.Part of a set of sixteen, "The Battle at Oroi-jalatu" was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1765 to commemorate Manchu victories (1755-59) over the Eleuths, the Dzungars, and other Central Asian peoples in the present-day region of Xinjiang. Made under the direction of Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790), the prints, which follow reduced-scale copies of paintings by Jesuit artists working in Beijing, were etched and engraved in France from 1767 to 1774 by the finest printmakers at the court of Louis XV. The Chinese merchants of Canton (present-day Guangzhou) paid for the copper plates and two hundred sets of prints to be delivered to China, with only a few sets retained in Paris.The prints exemplify the fusion of East
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