The Taiping rebellion was defeated when
A) the dowager empress imprisoned the emperor and ended the Hundred Days reforms.
B) Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers.
C) the dowager empress died, leaving a two-year-old child as emperor.
D) the British seized the Grand Canal and cut off north-south trade in the empire.
E) All these answers are correct.
Answer: B) Nanjing was defeated by a combined force of imperial and European soldiers.
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