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#337 - Taiping 14: Tears Enough to Swell the River

The History of China by Chris Stewart

Jul 13, 202642:49Society & Culture

Three months after the biggest win of his life, Zeng Guofan tries to drown himself.Again.His fleet gets ambushed, split in half, & set ablaze by a 23-year-old nobody bothered to worry about – right up until he became the...

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