can indicate that the harp used in this poem is used for a special event or a royal occasion. The man mentioned in this poem‚ Chou Yu‚ was a military strategist and general during the Han Dynasty. He was one of the elite and assisted Sun Ce‚ a warlord‚ in many battles. He was one of the strategists during the Battle of the Red Cliffs that led the Kingdom of Wu
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discover after years of oral history and exaggeration. The legend of King Arthur focuses on a medieval king in shining armor. While some of the legend is pure fantasy‚ written and archaeological evidence exists that the legend was based on a 5th century warlord who fought against the Anglo-Saxon invasion. The legend of King Arthur started in the 12th century by a cleric named Geoffrey of Monmouth. The story begins when Arthur pulls out a legendary sword from an ancient rock and then becomes king. He then
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were admitted as members. With Soviet aid‚ the KMT army was built up. A young officer‚ Chiang Kai-shek‚ was sent to Moscow for training. Upon returning‚ he was put in charge of the Whampoa Military Academy‚ established to train soldiers to fight the warlords‚ who controlled much of China S(See Chiang Kai-shek). Zhou Enlai (also Chou En-lai) of the CCP was deputy director of the academy’s political
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started on the 3rd of October with what was supposed to be a quick “snatch and grab” operation. The operation was only to last thirty minutes. Under the command of Capt. Mike Steele they were to insert soldiers to capture two top lieutenants of a warlord Mohamed Farrrah Aidid. Things went terribly wrong when a black hawk was shot down by an RPG (rocket propelled grenade). It then became a rescue mission to save the soldiers from the crash site. The next thing they knew there were hundreds of Somali
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the years leading up to the conflict portrayed in “Black Hawk Down” the country of Somalia had been involved in a civil war. Rival clans headed by vicious warlords were rutted against one another. They maintained their power by controlling the weapons and food. By late 1993 over 300‚000 civilians had been starved to death by these warlords. When the United Nations could no longer keep the peace and distribute food to those in needs‚ the United States sent in an elite group of military forces
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“This is Charlie 3589. We got a patrol moving one click south from your position‚ Whiskey Team‚” said command. “Copy that‚ command. We got about 30 men guarding a MIG scanning the skies. I advise you raise the drone’s altitude about 2‚000 feet to avoid detection‚” responded Whiskey Team. “Copy that‚” replied command. “You’re getting too close to their camp‚” informed command‚ “We are ordering radio silence.” The sergeant passed on the order to his men. He commanded‚ “From this point on
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brief look at their history. Beginning with the fall of the Qing dynasty which lasted from 1644 to 1912‚ the country soon became embroiled in a civil war headed by warlords that emanated from the Qing dynasty and blighted most of the newly established Republic of China. These civil wars officially lasted until 1928 but some minor warlords still operated trying to gain power of regions well into the 40’s. This may explain why China has suffered in the past with democratically electing leaders. It may
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1993‚ a group of US soldiers went to Somalia as part of a U.N. Peacekeeping operation. Their mission was to capture several top lieutenants of the Somali warlords Mohamed Farrah Aidid. The operation started by an elite group of American Rangers and Delta Force soldiers who were sent to Somalia on a critical mission to capture a violent warlord whose corrupt regime had lead to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Somalis. When the mission goes quickly and terribly wrong‚ the men find themselves
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glory. But when she put brush to paint and then to canvas‚ she was compelled to paint the truth‚ which was the most horrific creature as the war lord was an evil man without a drop of kindness within him. When the artist was finished and showed the warlord what she had painted‚ he had her dragged to the dungeons until she painted what he
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