“Qing Brigades Had Been Taking the Fields of Himalaya...” (Qing-Nepalese War, 1791-1792)
This article is the first special study of the Qing-Nepalese war of the 1791 1792 in the Russian historiography of China and Nepal. In spite of the fact that this conflict was the last victory of Qing empire in a war with the foreigners, it was neglected. In the same time, there are the studies of the status of Tibet within Qing empire and of the nominal vassality system functioning. The course of war was hardly mentioned even in the works of such famous orientalists as Ye.Yi. Kychanov, A.S. Martynov and Ye.L. Besprozvannykh. This article is the first attempt to analyze the course of the war and to compile the chronology of events based upon the Qing and Nepalese primary sources. Also it deals with the peculiarities of the armed forces of all countries which took part in the clash, as these peculiarities influenced the course of the war very much.