Clan and Banner Background
The Fusele clan is recorded in volume 59 of the Qianlong-era Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with Tun'ang'a named as its ancestral home. Gabula of the Plain Yellow Banner has no documented submission year. His son Xihana served as a cavalry-company officer. During the Kangxi reign, repeated requests to serve in the capital brought Xihana a hereditary yunqiwei award. Descendants included Benbu, a vanguard company officer; Asa'erhan, a deputy guard-battalion commander; and A'ertu, a cavalry-company officer.
Family Service and Distinctions
Cavalry, vanguard, and guard-company offices belonged to distinct military organizations; yunqiwei was an inheritable distinction awarded for acknowledged service. Xihana therefore held both an actual military appointment and a separate hereditary reward. The source does not identify the award as deriving from a particular assault on a city, and such a campaign must not be invented.
Kinship, Succession, and Evidence
Gabula's undated submission and Xihana's Kangxi-period service are two different chronological facts. The latter cannot establish an earlier submission date for Gabula. This account was expanded from a former index-only entry using the corresponding genealogical passage. The exact site of Tun'ang'a, original appointment record, subsequent inheritance, and finer family relationships need independent verification.
Sources and Bibliography
References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.
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