Cao Rulin was Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Beiyang Government, and an important member of the pro-Japanese movement in the early 20th century. In 1915, he took Yuan Shikai's orders and signed the infamous "Twenty-One Demands" treaty with Japan. Cao Rulin was part of the Chinese envoy attending the Paris Peace Conference. At the conference many concessions were made to Japan that were unfavorable to China.

Ni Sichong was one of the handful of Beiyang generals who along with Zhang Xun supported Yuan Shikai's Empire of China during the National Protection War. He was later part of the Anhui clique until resigning in 1920 due to the disastrous defeat in the Zhili-Anhui War.

Feng Yuxiang (1882-1948) was a warlord during Republican China. As the son of an officer in the Qing Imperial Army, Feng spent his youth immersed in the military life. He joined the army at age 16 and proved himself to be hard working and motivated. Feng, like many young officers, was seduced by revolutionary romanticism and was nearly executed for treason. He later joined Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army and converted to Christianity in 1914.

Tan Yankai (1876-1930) was a Chinese politician from Hunan. A member of Liang Qichao's Constitutionalist Party, he campaigned for a parliament and restrained monarchy. As the party renamed itself the Progressive Party after the Xinhai Revolution, he was a major leader. He left and joined the Kuomintang and became military governor of his home province. His support for Sun Yatsen's attempt to overthrow President Yuan Shikai in 1913 led to his ouster.

Yen Hsi-shan, (8 October, 1883 – 22 July, 1960) was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China. Yen received his formal military training first in China and later at Imperial Japanese Army Academy. In Japan he became a member of Sun Yat-sen's Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui) and following the 1911 Xinhai Revolution he seized power in the province of Shanxi. Though a member of the Beiyang Army and affiliated with Duan Qirui, …

Wu Peifu or Wu P'ei-fu, was a major figure in the struggles between the warlords who dominated Republican China from 1916 to 1927. Born in Shandong Province in Eastern China, Wu initially received a traditional Chinese education. He later joined the Baoding Military Academy (保定軍校) in Beijing and embarked on a career as a professional soldier. His talents as an officer were recognized by his superiors, and he rose quickly in the ranks.

Zhang Shaozeng (1879-1928) was a Beiyang Army general in charge of the 20th Division. He was born in Zhili province and graduated from a Japanese military academy in 1901. He was a known radical who advocated constitutional monarchy and supported Wu Luzhen's mutiny during the Xinhai Revolution. He became the Progressive Party boss of Tianjin. In 1912, he secured the loyalty of the Inner Mongolian tribes to Yuan Shikai.

Cao Kun (Traditional Chinese: 曹錕; Simplified Chinese: 曹锟; pinyin: Cáo Kūn; Wade-Giles: Ts'ao K'un; Courtesy name: Zhongshan (仲珊)) (December 12, 1862-May 15, 1938) was a military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army.

Féng Guózhāng (1858 - December 1919) native of Hejian, Hebei. He was a Beiyang Army general and politician in early republican China. Feng broke with Yuan Shikai when the latter attempted to make himself emperor. His name was prominently missing from the list of proposed successors Yuan revealed after death. Feng then served as vice president under Li Yuanhong and was founder of the Zhili clique of warlords. During the occupation of Beijing by Zhang Xun, …

(20 May 1843 – 16 January 1914) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Meiji-period. Born in Kagoshima, the son of a "samurai" of the Satsuma domain, he studied naval construction and gunnery and participated in the Anglo-Satsuma War. Before the Boshin War, he had already relocated to Edo and placed his naval skills at the service of the forces striving to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Lin Baoyi (1863-1927) was a Chinese admiral during the warlord era. Born in Fuzhou, he was educated at the local naval academy and was sent to Britain for further studies. Lin rose to become an admiral in the Beiyang fleet during the Qing dynasty and continued to serve in the Republic. In 1917, reacting against Duan Qirui's dominance over the Beiyang government, he defected with his ships to Sun Yat-sen's rival Constitutional Protection government in South China.

Ding Ruchang (18 November 1836 - 12 February 1895) was the commander of the Qing Empire's Beiyang Fleet during the Battle of the Yalu River in the First Sino-Japanese War. He became a casualty of the battle from the opening shot of his own vessel, the "Dingyuan", along with a number of officers also present on the bridge.

Lin Sen, courtesy name Zichao (子超), sobriquet Changren (長仁), was Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1932 until his death. Born in Shangan Township (尚幹鄉), Minhou County (閩侯縣), Fujian, Lin worked in the Telegram Bureau of Taipei in 1884. After the First Sino-Japanese War, he engaged in guerilla activities against the Japanese occupiers. He returned to the mainland and worked in the Shanghai customs office in 1902.

Yuan Shikai (Yuan Shih-kai) was one to the most significant Chinese political figures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was a high military official of the Qing (Ching) Dynasty who turned against it, succeeded Sun Yat-sen as the first president of the Chinese Republic and attempted to found a new imperial dynasty. Yuan Shikai (eaa ) was born in 1859 and died in 1916. He was born in 1859 to a locally prominent family in Henan.

Admiral Ting Ju-Chang , for example, commander of the Beiyang Fleet, was a cavalry officer by training and knew next to nothing about ships. Li Hongzhang appointed a Prussian fortification engineer named Constantin von Hanneken as co-admiral under Admiral Ting, partly to help save him from decapitation in case of defeat.

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