... and no unifying event to bring the nation together. The young men of the day had had drilled into them by history, legend, verse, story and song that real nationhood is forged in battle. Within nine months of the outbreak of the great war, this forging had been done, and done ... finding the flat beach they expected, they found they had been landed at the incorrect position and faced steep cliffs and constant barrages of enemy fire and shelling. Around 20,000 soldiers landed on the beach over the next two days to face a well organised, well armed, large Turkish ... unsuccessful strateg...

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... peasant family near Canton (Guangzhou) and educated in Hawaii, where he converted to Christianity. He returned to China and led an unsuccessful rebellion in Canton in 1894. A decade later he forged a union between several Chinese groups, called the Revolutionary Alliance Society. The alliance advocated freeing China from foreign control, overthrowing the Manchu dynasty, and providing for the people's welfare. Its ... . Their request was denied, precipitating the May Fourth Movement, which grew out of a student uprising in China. The movement's leaders demanded modernization through educat...

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