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Changteh

British  
/ ˈtʃæŋˈteɪ /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Changde

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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