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unusual facts about Long March



Li Fuchun

Li Fuchun took part at all the Communist Party's major campaigns, including the Long March, during which he was vice-director of the General Political Department of the Red Army and political commissar.

Min Mountains

The Lazikou Pass, a site of strategical importance during the Long March, passes through the Min Mountains and connects northwestern Sichuan with southern Gansu.

Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army

A Chinese Communist leader, Peng Zhen, compared the extreme hardship suffered by the army with the Long March.


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Cranston McEachern

He overstepped his authority to countermand Allied officers to concentrate prisoners in the Bangkok area as he knew many prisoners would not survive the long march.

D. D. Jackson

An alumnus of the Lehman Engel BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Jackson's theatre work includes the opera Trudeau: Long March/Shining Path on the former Canadian Prime Minister and the musical-comedy Depressed, Depressed written with Chicago City Limits veteran Carl Kissin.

Enam Djam di Jogja

It was his second film dealing with the national revolution following Darah dan Doa (The Long March) the preceding year, which had followed the Siliwangi Division's long march to West Java.

Marcus Junkelmann

The experiment consisted of a month long march from Verona to Augsburg including the crossing of the Alps.

Oren E. Long

Oren Ethelbirt Long (March 4, 1889 – May 6, 1965), was the tenth Territorial Governor of Hawaii and served from 1951 to 1953.

Sahibzada Haji Muhammad Fazal Karim

Under his leadership SIC started long March named, Labaik Ya Rasoolallah long march with the support of Jamaat Ahle Sunnat, the Sunni Tehreek and the Difa-e-Pakistan Council.

Stalag Luft VI

James 'Dixie' Deans, RAF sergeant and World War II bomber pilot, guided 2,000 allied POWs across Germany in what was known as the "Long March".