page_title: New Army
section_title: Renaming and revolution
hierarchical_section_title: New Army / Renaming and revolution
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 定武軍（小站練兵）の儀仗部隊。
context_page_description: The New Armies, more fully called the Newly Created Army, was the modernized army corps formed under the Qing dynasty in December 1895, following its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War. It was envisioned as militia fully trained and equipped according to Western standards.
context_section_description: The Chien Men gate refers to the Zhengyangmen.
  The successful example of the new army was followed in other provinces. The New Army of Yuan was renamed the Beiyang Army on June 25, 1902 after Yuan was officially promoted to the "Minister of Beiyang". By the end of the dynasty in 1911, most provinces had established sizable new armies; however, Yuan's army was still most powerful, comprising six groups and numbering more than 75,000 men.  The Qing unified all of China's armies into one force, the "Chinese Army", which was commonly still called the New Army.  Two-thirds of the Chinese Army was Yuan's Beiyang Army.
  During the Xinhai Revolution, most of the non-Beiyang forces as well as some Beiyang units in the Chinese Army revolted against the Qing.  Yuan led the Beiyang Army into opposing the revolution while also negotiating for the Qing's surrender and his ascendency to the presidency of the new republic.
caption: Pacification Army (定武軍 Dingwu jun) in 1895.
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