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... fighting . " I am perfectly aware from nearly four years service in this country that both sides are equally rotten , " he wrote from Soochow in October 1863. " But you must confess that on the Taiping side there is at leas [ t ] innova ...
... fighting . " I am perfectly aware from nearly four years service in this country that both sides are equally rotten , " he wrote from Soochow in October 1863. " But you must confess that on the Taiping side there is at leas [ t ] innova ...
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... fighting between the two forces constantly threatened to halt the project . The Communists resented the work because they had to dispossess the squatters who had settled in the old riverbed ; Nationalists resented it because it was ...
... fighting between the two forces constantly threatened to halt the project . The Communists resented the work because they had to dispossess the squatters who had settled in the old riverbed ; Nationalists resented it because it was ...
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... fighting general . " 78 There Stilwell stayed , while crucial decisions in India and China clamored for his attention and spring dragged into summer , on foot in the Burmese mud . Why did he stay ? “ Because it was the simplest military ...
... fighting general . " 78 There Stilwell stayed , while crucial decisions in India and China clamored for his attention and spring dragged into summer , on foot in the Burmese mud . Why did he stay ? “ Because it was the simplest military ...
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