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5 unusual facts about warlords


Afghan parliamentary election, 2010

Warlords, the Taliban and rival candidates were blamed for the intimidation and already at least eight people had been assassinated in relation to the upcoming elections, including three candidates.

Human rights in Afghanistan

Warlords in the north have used property destruction, rape, and murder to discourage displaced Pashtuns from reclaiming their homes.

Warlords

The Warlords, a 2007 Chinese/Hong Kong film starring Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro

(HSM-51) "WARLORDS", the call sign of a United States Navy Helicopter squadron based in Ayase city, Japan

Civilization IV: Warlords, the first expansion pack to the Civilization IV game series


1928 in China

May 3Jinan Incident, an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan.

Airco DH.9A

The Soviets deployed R-1s in support of the Chinese Kuomintang forces in the Northern Expedition against warlords in 1926-27 and against Chinese forces in clashes over control of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria in 1929.

Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism

Some remained in Somalia while others, such as warlords Mohamed Dheere and Mohamed Afrah Qanyare, went to Ethiopia seeking refuge.

Azai Nagamasa

Additionally, Nagamasa returns as an Heir to the Asai Clan in the fan created Samurai Warlords Mod (aka the Shogun Mod) for the PC game Medieval Total War.

Battle on Pyana River

The Battle on Pyana River took place on August 2, 1377 between the Blue Horde Khan Arapsha (Arab-Shah Muzaffar) and joint Russian troops under Knyaz Ivan Dmitriyevich, made up of the Pereyaslavl, Yaroslavl, Yuryev, Nizhny Novgorod and Murom warlords.

Chinese political parties

The Communist Party of China, formed in 1921, entered into a united front with the Nationalists in 1923 to defeat the warlords.

David II of Kakheti

David resided at Qara Aghach or Qaraghaji in eastern Kakheti, on the borders of Shirvan, but had to move his residence to Telavi after he failed to recover Balakan from the Dagestani warlords and lost Qakh to them in 1706.

Edward Galvin

From his arrival in China until his expulsion in 1952, Galvin would have experienced some good years, but difficulties and dangers predominated: a corrupt Chinese government, local warlords and banditry, floods, drought, the Japanese invasion.

Giric

Alfred P. Smyth, Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80–1000. E.J. Arnold, London, 1984 (reprinted Edinburgh UP).

Jon Shafer

Shafer was later hired full-time, and served as a designer and programmer on the two Civilization IV expansions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword.

King You of Chu

In the 1930s his tomb at Shou County, Anhui Province was destroyed by warlords, and many artifacts were dispersed, but a great bronze cauldron or ding called 楚大鼎 was preserved and is on display in Anhui Museum.

Le Hien Tong

Lê Hiển Tông (黎顯宗 1717–1786), puppet ruler under the power of Trịnh warlords Trịnh Doanh then Trịnh Sâm

Lom Sak District

The governor of Mueang Rat (Lom Sak), Pho Khun Pha Mueang (พ่อขุนผาเมือง), was one of Thai warlords who defeated the Khmer from Siamese area.

Ma Bufang

Ma Bufang was described as a socialist by American journalist John Roderick and friendly compared to the other Ma Clique warlords.

Medieval Mayhem

The game was inspired by Atari's 1980 arcade game Warlords, which was first ported to the Atari 2600 in 1981 by game designer Carla Meninsky.

Nagao clan

Uesugi Kenshin (1530-1578), originally Nagao Kagetora, is one of the most famous warlords in Japanese history.

Omar Muhamoud Finnish

After the defeat of the ICU by the alliance of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), the autonomous states of Puntland and Galmudug, various warlords and, most importantly, the army of Ethiopia, he returned to Mogadishu and was present on January 12, 2007 at Villa Somalia where an agreement was reached between the Mogadishu warlords and the TFG to disarm the militias and to direct members to join the national army and police.

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords

Puzzle Quest was primarily the brainchild of Steve Fawkner, the original designer of the Warlords game series which merged typical RPG elements with turn-based strategy games.

Shou County

King You of Chu was buried in Shou County, though his tomb was destroyed by warlords in the 1930s.

The Holy Cows

Starting in 2011, High Tech High's The Holy Cows and Francis Parker High School's the Warlords began hosting an off-season FIRST Robotics Competition.

Third Encirclement Campaign against the Shaanxi-Gansu Soviet

After the failed Second Encirclement Campaign against Shaanxi–Gansu Soviet in July, 1935, Chiang Kai-shek once again immediately mobilized more than 100,000 troops of warlords of Northeast China, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Suiyuan, Ningxia and Gansu to launch the Third Encirclement Campaign against ShaanxiGansu Soviet aimed to eradicate the local communists.

Uesugi Norimasa

He is perhaps best known as the adoptive father of Uesugi Kenshin, one of the most famous warlords in Japanese history.

United Nations Operation in Somalia I

The main parties to the ceasefire, General Mohamed Farrah Aidid and "President" Ali Mahdi Muhammad, once again showing the difficult and troubled relations between the warlords, proved to be difficult negotiating partners and continually frustrated attempts to move the peacekeepers and supplies.

Vlastos

The Vlastoses were "warlords" (Condottieri), with a private army serving the needs of the Emperor of the day at a fee.

VMFAT-501

In October 1954, VMF-451 upgraded to the North American FJ-2 Fury, and adopted the name "Warlords", redesigning their unit insignia to feature a jet punching through a Carling beer label and sporting the motif, "Vini, Vici" meaning "we conquered some wine" as opposed to "Veni, Vici" which means "I came, I conquered".

Warlords of Atlantis

Warlords of Atlantis received a Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rating of PG.

Zhili–Anhui War

In April 1920, while visiting a memorial service at Baoding for soldiers who died in Hunan, one-time presidential-candidate Cao Kun added more warlords to the anti-Anhui clique alliance, including the rulers of Hubei, Henan, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhili.


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