Changteh
Britishnoun
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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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Six days later, the survivors returned with reinforcements to retake Changteh.
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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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If warm weather brought an epidemic to Changteh, the disease might sweep to the Japanese.
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The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits.
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