During the Second Sino-Japanese War, half of 300 divisions in China's armed forces were commanded by Whampoa graduates and one-third were Baoding cadets.

[3] Mathematics, practical and technical subjects, sciences, foreign languages, Chinese Classics and history were taught at the school.

[3] The Tianjin Military Academy in 1886 adopted as part of its curriculum the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The Boxer Protocol required the Qing government to demilitarize Tianjin and the New Army was relocated to Baoding.

The academy trained officers for the New Army, which was a significant factor in Yuan Shikai's rise to power at the end of the Qing dynasty and the pivotal role he played in the Xinhai Revolution.