High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Beiyang Fleet (simplified Chinese: ????; traditional Chinese: ????; pinyin: Beiyang Jiandui; literally "Northern Ocean Fleet", alternatively Northern Seas Fleet) was one of the four modernised Chinese navies in the late Qing Dynasty. Among the four, the Beiyang Fleet was particularly sponsored by Li Hongzhang, one of the most trusted vassals of Empress Dowager Cixi and the principal patron of the "self-strengthening movement" in northern China in his capacity as the Viceroy of Zhili and the Minister of Beiyang Commerce (??????). Due to Li's influence in the imperial court, the Beiyang Fleet garnered much greater resources than the other Chinese fleets and soon became the dominant navy in East Asia before the onset of First Sino-Japanese War in 1894–1895 — it was the largest in the Far East and the 8th in the world during the late 1880s in terms of tonnage. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном...

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