Members of an indigenous people of Manchuria.
1 The Project Gutenberg eBook, China and the Manchus , by Herbert Allen Giles
2 The alien rulers were first the Mongols, and later the Tungus Manchus .
3 In 1638 the Manchus appeared before Peking, but they retired once more.
4 He issued a proclamation that the hour of the Manchus had come!
5 The Manchus had been preparing for some generations for a descent on China.
6 The Young Manchus and their allies had the ground surveyed thoroughly.
7 All these things helped to stabilize the regime of the Manchus .
8 His task was to drive out the last Ming pretenders for the Manchus .
9 At that time the Manchus partly shaved their head and wore braided queues.
10 He had ecstatic visions, and preached a crusade against idolatry and the Manchus .
11 The south remained, nevertheless, a focus of hostility to the Manchus .
12 There, seduced by the Manchus , they suddenly changed the inscription on their flags.
13 Of the Manchus as a people, I shall speak later on.
14 The Manchus crippled them, spoilt their roads and broke their waterways.
15 Wu San-kui made himself emperor, and the Manchus marched against him.
16 Wu San-kui's only possible allies against the Manchus were the gentry.
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