- a variation of Changde.
Changteh
Britishnoun
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If warm weather brought an epidemic to Changteh, the disease might sweep to the Japanese.
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Simultaneously Sun Lien-chung struck north from Changteh against the Japanese rear with a mighty blow.
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The impression was exaggerated: the battle of Changteh was violent enough, but it was an interlude in an essentially unviolent war.
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Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause.
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Best example of Chinese ARP came from Changteh, 100 miles north of Changsha.
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