However, Turrell V. Wylie states that censorship in the Mingshi in favor of bolstering the Ming emperor's prestige and reputation at all costs obfuscates the nuanced history of Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming era.

However, the emperor's martial abilities were not equal to his father, and his inability to crush the remaining barbarian states allowed Northern Wei to complete the unification of the North, to the detriment of Liu Song.

However local evidence, only later made public, suggests that Napoleon's account of the catastrophe may have been totally invented ; on the emperor's instructions the lakes were drained a few days after the battle and the corpses of only two or three men, with some 150 horses, were found.

However, further diplomatic negotiations were to be resumed once the emperor returned to Beijing ; hence, the Portuguese embassy was sent there to wait for the emperor's return.

However, with his death, eunuch influence at court was challenged by Yang Tinghe, who announced the rejection of the Portuguese embassy under Pires and Andrade the day after the emperor's death ; the embassy was forced to leave and arrived back in Canton in September.

However, by this time the emperor's authority over the numerous territories of the empire was only nominal, and the various rulers acted more or less as sovereign states.

However, he was assassinated at Cheb in Bohemia by one of the army's officials, Walter Devereux, with the emperor's approval.

However, the geographical features of the terrain were not the only hardships which this journey involved: there was a matter which first had to be settled, involving the relationship between Xuanzong and the Yang family, especially the emperor's beloved Yang Guifei.

However, when Za Dengel proclaimed changes in the observance of the Sabbath, Páez retired to Fremona, and waited out the ensuing civil war that ended with the emperor's death.

However, military movements by imperial forces, partisan violence in Edo, and an imperial decree promoted by Satsuma and Choshu abolishing the house of Tokugawa led Yoshinobu to launch a military campaign to seize the emperor's court at Kyoto.

However, with the emperor's only brother Sima Daozi the Prince of Kuaiji being incompetent and Crown Prince Dezong being developmentally disabled, no investigation into Emperor Xiaowu's death was conducted.

However, this theory does in fact fit nicely with the story told of Xu You, where the sage, upon hearing Emperor Yao's invitation to become the overseeing governor of 9 provinces, promptly washed his ears in the Ying River ( the largest tributary of the Huai River with its origin in Henan ) to show that the emperor's promise of fame and fortune had sullied his ears.

However, as in the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, Russian forces were familiar with their own ground which provided a natural advantage for the Russian emperor's land forces.

However, Zhang was also said to be honest and always seeking to correct the emperor's behavior, even if it offended the emperor.

However, Ashikaga Takauji quickly learned that he did not like following the emperor's commands, and revolted again to establish his own Ashikaga bakufu ( the second, middle shogunate ).

However, after Jovan Nenad's death, general commander of his army, Radoslav Čelnik, led the remains of emperor's army to Ottoman Syrmia, where he ruled until 1530 as Ottoman vassal.

However, the younger Lepidus was probably involved in a conspiracy in 39 A. D., along with the emperor's sisters Agrippina the Younger and Julia Livilla.

However, by May 1867, the emperor's forces had succumbed to a siege and the emperor had been executed.

However, as his sister gained the emperor's love, near disaster would befall Wei.

However, it may just date back to W. Rutherford's 1825 publication The Ladies ' Diary, four years after the French emperor's death.

However, soon after this ordination, perhaps in 808, Theodore began to express his unwillingness to associate with the rehabilitated priest Joseph, or for that matter with anyone else who knowingly associated with him, as he held the rehabilitation for uncanonical.

However his defensive caution and his unwillingness to engage the enemy led to his army being outmanoeuvered.

However, Pitt resigned in February 1801 ( over King George's unwillingness to support Catholic emancipation in Ireland ), and was replaced by the more accommodating Henry Addington.

However, the Cato Institute officially resists being labeled as part of the conservative movement because " conservative smacks of an unwillingness to change, of a desire to preserve the status quo ".

However, because of banks ' unwillingness to lend money for PFI projects, the UK government now had to fund the so-called ' private ' finance initiative itself.

However, in general, Emperor Xuan's reign, even in this period, was marked by his concern for the people and unwillingness to undertake military action unless necessary.

However, this did not happen and instead it was subsumed into the New University, primarily as a result of the unwillingness of the Unionist government at Stormont to have the second university sited in overwhelmingly nationalist Derry, in which " The Troubles " were just beginning to break out.

However, none of the proposals could overcome the City of Vancouver's objections to any increase in traffic into the downtown core and the province's unwillingness to spend much money on the project.

However, while his army was being defeated, Muhammad saw the possibility of victory in France's unwillingness to participate ( it having some warm feelings to the Khedive, and mainly participating with what was considered a token force to try to block a British expansion in North Africa.

However, various factors such as poor quality control in new products, a large amount of required game material to purchase, and unwillingness to use the Internet as a medium, meant that by 1994 only a few hardcore fans remained.

However many believe that they are necessary to compensate for the formal education system's inability or unwillingness to address particular individual problems.

However a perceived unwillingness by the Manifesta organisers to engage with the College and the Cypriot art world resulted in the College becoming one of Manifesta 6's fiercest critics.

However, low ratings combined with Danes ' unwillingness to return combined to end the series.

However, many lost their jobs and pensions with the disbanding of the Iraqi army by Bremer ; this, and the unwillingness of the Coalition Provisional Authority to negotiate with former Ba ' ath elements, provided the impetus for the initial insurgency.

However, he abandoned the plan due to his unwillingness to distract the efforts of the members of Narodnaya Volya from attempting to assassinate Alexander II.

However, the convention's unwillingness to contemplate independence as a constitutional option persuaded Sillars in particular against getting involved and the SNP did not take part.

However, Thompson rejected the offer as he felt he could not commit himself to the role due to the long journey to work, the inevitably large number of scouting missions and his unwillingness to uproot his family or live away from them.

However, they were unwilling to move to the valleys from the mountains, with a certain unwillingness to progress.

However, when faced with determined resistance, such as at the invasion of Timor and the Battle of Milne Bay in 1942, they often experienced heavy casualties due to their unwillingness to surrender.

However, he soon got at odds with the Norwegian political leadership in exile due to his strong headed attitudes and unwillingness to compromise.

However, towards the end of the 1980s, Thatcher's increasing unpopularity and unwillingness to change policies perceived as vote-losing led to her being deposed in 1990 and replaced by John Major who won an unexpected election victory in 1992.

However, Doré was also criticized for an ineffective style of government, including lax policies toward city employees, as well as an unwillingness to pay down the massive debt left by the projects of former mayor Jean Drapeau.