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Examples:war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters—National protection war or Campaign defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor—lit. fire beacons in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war—Pericles (c. 495-429 BC), Athenian strategist and politician before and at the start of the Peloponnesian war—Tojo Hideki (1884-1948), Japanese military leader hanged as war criminal in 1948—fire of war everywhere (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war—Korean war (dating from North Korean invasion on 25th Jun 1950)—Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal—Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and indicted war criminal—the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war—Nanchang Uprising, 1st August 1927, the beginning of military revolt by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War—cannon firing for days on end (idiom); enveloped in the flames of war—Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842—The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction—the Arrow (a Hong Kong registered ship involved in historical incident in 1856 used as pretext for the second Opium War)—Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader and war criminal—Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One—war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government—Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945—if two tigers fight, one must get injured (idiom); if you start a war, someone is bound get hurt—Chidori ga fuchi, national war cemetery in Tokyo—(arch.) religious ritual on setting out for war—Campaign defend the republic (1915) or National protection war, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor—(Claire) Chennault, commander of Flying Tigers during World War II—know the enemy and know oneself (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War")—major political event (war or change of regime)—soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war—provisional capital of a country (e.g. in time of war)—NAKAYAMA Nariaki (1943-), right-wing Japanese cabinet minister and prominent denier of Japanese war crimes—the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors—Xiao Qian (1910-1999), Mongolian-born, Cambridge-educated journalist active during Second World War in Europe, subsequently famous author and translator—when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys [idiom.]—lit. sandpiper and clam war together and the fisherman catches both (idiom); fig. neighbors who can't agree lose out a third party— |