左宗棠收复新疆的战争 ( 1 875— 1 878)是一次反抗侵略、保卫祖国的正义战争。在清庭腐败、国势羸弱的情况下 ,左宗棠“引边荒艰巨为己任”① ,依靠其高超的军事斗争谋略和新疆各族人民的支持 ,不仅有力地痛击了俄、英侵略者及其支持下的阿古柏匪帮 ,使新疆各族人民免遭外国殖 Zuo Zongtang’s recovery of the war in Xinjiang (1875-1788) was a just war against aggression and defending the motherland. In the case of corruption in the Qing court and weak national conditions, Zuo Zongtang’s “task of leading the edge to a difficult position” (1). Relying on its superb strategy of military struggle and the support of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, it not only severely hampered the Russians and British invaders and The Agubo bandits, backed by it, have saved the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang from foreign colonialism