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  • Tso-lin, “Old Marshal”) a Chinese warlord who dominated Manchuria ... in 1928, he succeeded him as the strongest warlord in Manchuria. In December ...
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  • Kong Rong (153 – 208) was a bureaucrat, poet, and minor warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was ...
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  • Unfortunately, Cao Cao, a warlord and the Chancellor of the Eastern ... him to Sun Ce, a military general and warlord. Hua Tuo healed general ...
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  • Uesugi Kenshin (上杉 謙信) (February 18, 1530 — April 19, 1578), a warlord who ruled Echigo province during the Sengoku Period of Japanese ...
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  • to communism inspired him to abandon his warlord lifestyle; he recovered ... regiment sought refuge with a local warlord, Fan Shisheng, in Hunan ...
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  • Zedong rallied opposition against Hunan's warlord Chang Ching-yao.The May Fourth Movement covered more than 20 provinces and over 100 cities of ...
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  • According to legend, the military warlord Liu Bei, came three times ... was the sister of Lady Cai, wife of the warlord Liu Biao, and Cai Mao, one ...
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  • Takeda Shingen was born the son of the warlord Takeda Nobutora (1493 ... Shinano lands that same year. The young warlord made considerable advances ...
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  • orthodoxy, but Muhammad al-Kanem, a warlord of Kanem, contested the ... Muhammad al-Kanem was a Muslim scholar and non-Sayfawa warlord who ...
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  • Yuan Shikai died and China fell into the Warlord Period (1916 – 1928), ... parliament there. However, the warlord of Guangzhou drove him out ...
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  • in Japan where he was in exile because the Chinese warlord, Yuan Shikai, had usurped his position as president of China. He had previously been married ...
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  • Finally, following a rapid campaign, the Druze warlord Fahkr-al-Din II conquered and ruled Greater Lebanon from 1585 to 1635 and implemented a more or ...
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  • harassed by the Kuomintang and their local warlord allies, but also by tribes ... * Warlord era ==Notes== ==References and Further reading== ...
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  • In 1917, the warlord general Zhang Xun (張勛) restored Puyi to his ... Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1924 by warlord ...
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  • In 621 C.E., at the beginning of the Tang dynasty, a warlord and general ... In 1928, the warlord Shi Yousan set fire to the monastery and burned ...
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  • by some to have been introduced by the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. His ... #039;s behalf in peace negotiations with the same warlord. ...
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  • province of the Republic of China. During the warlord period of the early ROC when control had not been established over all areas of China, the region ...
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  • the Han Dynasty, Shouchun became the base for the warlord Yuan Shu, who declared himself emperor at one point, but soon succumbed to illness, allowing ...
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  • of his domain. He was the first Japanese warlord to incorporate firearms ... the son of Oda Nobuhide, an insignificant warlord and a daimyo, with some ...
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  • third century, Jingzhou was ruled by regional warlord Liu Biao. After his death, Liu Biao's realm was surrendered by his successors to Cao Cao ...
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  • *Khun Lo, warlord who founded the city *Fa Ngum, prince of Luang Prabang who founded Lan Xang *Oun Kham, king who ruled under the French ...
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  • Shadow, Prometheus, 2000 C.E., Gargoyles #6, and Warlord. ==Notes== ==References== * Allen, Charles. 1999. The Search for Shangri-La: A Journey ...
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  • Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Traditional Chinese: 孫中山 or 孫逸仙; Pinyin: Sūn Zhōngshān; or "Sun Yixian") (November 12, 1866 – March ...
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  • leader of the Nationalist government. The warlord capital of Beijing was taken ... communists. Chiang fought with most of his warlord allies. One of these northern ...
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  • China (1912-1949), Shanxi was held by the warlord Yen Hsi-shan, even with ... Chinese Civil War. Yen Hsi-shan, the warlord who had ruled the area since ...
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  • Guangdong (formerly spelled "Kwangtung") is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic of China. It is bordered ...
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  • had been captured by the Mongols warlord, Genghis Khan. [[Image:Qutab.jpg|thumb|250px|The Qutab Minar, now a World Heritage Site in India, was ...
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  • cults of worship. As people called upon the dead warlord as they went into battle or faced hardship, they began to venerate the figure as more than ...
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  • center of a kingdom carved out by the Canaanite warlord Labaya, at the expense of neighboring cities. To accomplish this, King Labaya allegedly recruited ...
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  • Yuan Shikai (Courtesy Weiting 慰亭; Pseudonym: Rong'an 容庵  t=袁世凱|s=袁世凯|p=Yuán Shìkǎi|w=Yüan Shih-k'ai ...
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  • and Li Zongren, whose armies defeated warlord Sun Chuanfang, moved eastward ... of blockhouses (manned by the troops of a warlord ally of Chiang Kai-shek ...
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  • drama about the conquests of a famous Chinese warlord, and the romantic tragedy Shinju Ten no Amizima (The Love Suicides at Amizima). ...
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  • “Time may be running out for Uganda’s LRA warlord,”] Sudan Tribune (September 26, 2005). Retrieved September 8, 2007. Bride kidnapping, ...
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  • Tīmūr bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic): تیمور - Tēmōr, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a fourteenth-century warlord of Turco ...
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  • The power of the Hashshashin was destroyed by the Mongol warlord Hulagu Khan. During the Mongol assault of Alamut on December 15, 1256, the library ...
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  • to wipe each other out. For example, warlord Zhang Zuolin of Manchuria ... it was checked in Shandong, where Beiyang warlord Zhang Zongchang, backed ...
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  • Uprising, the Republican Revolution of 1911, the Warlord Era, the rise of nationalism and communism, and the origins of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945. ...
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  • During the late-fourteenth century, Islamic warlord of Turco-Mongol ... Second Invasion (1596-1598), the Japanese warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi, with ...
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  • *"Achilles' Revenge" is a song by Warlord. *Achilles Heel is an album by the indie rock band Pedro the Lion. *Achilles and his ...
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  • English king Alfred the Great and the Norwegian warlord Guthrum the Old, written down following Guthrum's defeat at the Battle of Edington, in 878 ...
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  • the eunuchs, and the intervention of the warlord Dong Zhuo. The shanyu named ... In 216, the warlord-statesman Cao Cao detained Hucuquan in the city ...
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  • based in a part of Somalia controlled by Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Ethiopia retaliated by supporting groups in southern Somalia who were ...
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  • an urged Fu Chien to invite him to Ch’ang-an. The warlord-emperor sent Lu Kuang (Lü Guang, 呂光) with an army to march on Kucha and seize Kumarajiva ...
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  • several conflicts between the Hongwanji and the warlord Oda Nobunaga, culminating in a 10-year conflict over the location of the Osaka Hongwanji, which ...
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  • Algiers ( الجزائر or Al Jaza'ir, Alger ) is the capital, chief seaport, and largest city of Algeria, the second largest country on ...
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  • The Somali Revolution started in 1986, when President Siad Barre began attacking clan-based dissident groups opposed to his rule with his special ...
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  • power to the Liberia Council of State. Prominent warlord Charles Taylor was elected as President in 1997. Taylor's brutal regime targeted several ...
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  • at the time. Later on, China splintered into warlord factions, resulting in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Shandong was part of the ...
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  • largest land battle ever fought. During the Warlord Era in the early twentieth century, Liaoning was under the Fengtian Clique, including Zhang Zuolin ...
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  • Congo respectively. With the death of the Muslim warlord Rabih az-Zubayr, the greatest ruler in the region, and the creation of the Military Territory ...
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