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1870: Fierce Fighting at Jiaba Niuchang

David Leffman March 21, 2017 Mesny, Miao War Leave a Comment

In early February 1870, Chinese and Miao forces fought a particularly bloody skirmish at the village of Jiaba Niuchang, some 25km from the Sichuan Army base at Chong’an. Mesny wrote two slightly different accounts of the campaign, so Li Maoqing and myself once again set out to see if any stories had been handed down from the time. Modern Gulong …

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