 the ten great campaigns () were a series of wars fought during the reign of the qianlong emperor, much celebrated in the official qing dynasty annals. they included three to enlarge the area of qing control in central asia: two against the zunghars (1755â1757) and the pacification of xinjiang (1758â1759). the other seven campaigns were more in the nature of police actions on frontiers already established â two wars to suppress the jinchuan rebels in sichuan, another to suppress rebels in taiwan (1787â1788), and four expeditions abroad against the burmese (1765â1769), the vietnamese (1788â1789), and the warlike gurkhas in nepal on the border between tibet and india (1790â1792), the last counting as two. ==the dzungars and pacification of xinjiang (1755â1759)==  of the ten campaigns, the final destruction of the dzungars was the most significant. the 1755  and the later suppression of the  secured the northern and western boundaries of xinjiang, eliminated rivalry for control over the dalai lama in tibet, and thereby eliminated any rival influence in mongolia. it also led to the pacification of the islamicised, turkic-speaking southern half of xinjiang immediately thereafter.f.w. mote, imperial china 900â1800 (cambridge, ma: harvard university press, 1999), 936â939 in 1752, dawachi and the khoit-oirat prince  competed for the title of khan of the dzungars. dawachi defeated amursana various times and gave him no chance to recover. amursana was thus forced to flee with his small army to the qing court. qianlong pledged to support amursana since amursana accepted qing authority; among those who supported amursana and the chinese 
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