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Tag Archives: Chinese Gordon
Lessons for 2020 from POWs and Sieges
Being captured in battle can be a dramatic and traumatic experience. Instantly you are cut off from what was familiar and definite, and cast into a situation unfamiliar, out of your control, and with a most indefinite future. The same … Continue reading
Posted in Primary Sources, Sieges, Ties to the War
Tagged Chinese Gordon, Corregidor, James Stockdale, Java, Khartoum, Leningrad, prisoners of war, Vietnam War, Wladyslaw Anders, World War II
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General Ward and the Ever Victorious Army
North America was not the only place roiled by Civil War in the early 1860s – China was undergoing its own civil war in the eastern provinces around Shanghai, known as the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864). The rebellion climaxed in the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Arms & Armaments, Battles, Leadership--Federal, Personalities, Sieges
Tagged China, Chinese Gordon, Crimean War, Ever Victorious Army, Filibuster Army, Frederick Townsend Ward, Henry Burgevine, Massachusetts, mercenaries, Ningbo, Norwich University, Philippines, Salem, Shanghai, soldiers from Massachusetts, Taiping Rebellion
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Stonewall and the Chindit I: On Character and Generalship
Contemporaries of British Major General Orde Charles Wingate, famed leader of the Chindit special forces in Burma and a noted guerrilla commander in Africa and Palestine before that, often searched for someone with which to compare him. They usually hit … Continue reading