While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

In 1911, Mao convinced his father to allow him to attend middle school in the city of Changsha.

Leaving Changsha, Mao moved to the capital city of Peking, where his school mentor Yang Changji had recently migrated to take up a job at Peking University.

During this time, Japan launched its first attack against Changsha, a strategically important Chinese city, but was repulsed by late September.

In the year 278 B. C., upon learning of the upcoming devastation of his state from invasion by a neighbouring Warring State ( Qin in particular ), Qu is said to have waded into the Miluo river which drains into Dongting Hu ( lake ) in today's Hunan Province — near the provincial capital city of Changsha and south of the city of Yueyang on Donting Hu, site of the first IDBF World Dragon Boat Championship in 1996 — holding a great rock in order to commit ritual suicide as a form of protest against the corruption of the era.

On September 1, Peng again attempted to capture Changsha, but this attack was halted on the outskirts of the city with heavy casualties.

Meanwhile, another local-scale rebellion broke out near Changsha and the rebels besieged the city.

Some writings on cloth were excavated from the Han Dynasty tomb at Mawangdui near the city of Changsha in 1973 and edited and published in Beijing in 1976 as Zhanguo Zonghengjia Shu (, " Works from the School of Diplomacy During the Warring States Period )".

Changsha County ( Traditional: 長沙縣 ; Simplified: 长沙县 ; Pinyin: Chángshā Xiàn ) is a part of Changsha city, the capital of Hunan province in China.

Liuyang () is a county-level city in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in China.

* Approximately 170 km east of Guiyang in the regional city of Kaili, the Hunan-Guizhou Expressway ( G56-G60 ) links with the Gui-Xin Expressway providing high-speed vehicular access to and from Guiyang to the eastern Guizhou city of Tongren before continuing through Hunan Province to the major cities of Huaihua, Changde, and Changsha.

Liu Bei later came to invade Han Xuan's city of Changsha, and Han Xuan became suspicious of his top general Huang Zhong amidst the battle and wanted to execute him.

Battle of Changsha ( September 17, 1939 – October 6, 1939 ) was the first attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War.

Changsha was the first major city that did not fall to the Japanese advances.

The Battle of Changsha ( 6 September – 8 October 1941 ) was Japan's second attempt at taking the city of Changsha, China, the capital of Hunan Province, as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Chinese forces under the command of General Xue Yue — the 9th Army Group — conducted a response that included street fighting in Changsha city.

Ten Chinese armies eventually reached Changsha, retaking the city.

On 27 September, several hundred Japanese troops in plain clothes reached the north gate of Changsha but were unable to sabotage the city defenses, leading to heavy fighting on the 28th.

As such, it encompasses three separate conflicts: an invasion of the city of Changsha and two invasions of Hengyang.

The transfer process was initially slowed down by disputes between the Navy and the city regarding payment for environmental cleanup of the land.

Ansbach, originally Onolzbach ,( Onz ’ s-bach or -“ brook ”) also known initially as Anspach, a city in Bavaria, Germany.

The Brazilian government has announced that a Helibras factory in the city of Itajubá, Minas Gerais, will initially produce 50 units of the EC 725 and up to 150 new helicopters for the Brazilian military.

Ahasuerus, ruler of a massive Persian empire, holds a lavish party, initially for his court and dignitaries and afterwards for all inhabitants of the capital city Shushan.

Glaeser furthers his argument by stating that bigger cities do not pay more for equal productivity than in a smaller city, so it is reasonable to assume that workers become more productive if they move to a city twice the size as they initially worked in.

It took four years for Gawhar to build the city, initially known as al-Manṣūriyyah, which was to serve as the new capital of the caliphate.

Isokelekel and his descendants initially occupied the stone city, but later abandoned it.

Rioplatense Spanish, and particularly the speech of the city of Buenos Aires, has intonation patterns that resemble those of Italian languages, because Argentina has had a continuous large influx of Italian settlers since the second half of the nineteenth century: initially primarily from northern Italy ; then, since the beginning of the twentieth century, mostly from southern Italy.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

Luxembourg's last tramline closed in 1964 but the city is now planning to reintroduce trams by 2012, initially from the central station to Kirchberg and then to Luxembourg Airport.

Rowland was initially taken to the Tulsa city jail at First and Main.

For example, repairmen in a city can initially have a monthly wage of 3, 000 $.

After initially failing to penetrate the French defences at the Montmorency Falls, Wolfe later led his men to a victory to the west of the city allowing the British forces to capture Quebec.

The sculpture was initially slightly different in design and intended to be part of a fountain set in the city center, but the people of Vimmerby vehemently opposed the idea.

These Sheridans took part in the attack on the Commandancia, initially supported by fire from Quarry Heights, and later displacing forward into the city.

With the beginning of World War II, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and Soviet Union and initially the city came under Soviet control, as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

Negotiations between the city and the king took place in 1568 / 69, initially at Piotrków Trybunalski.

Immigration of international LDS members, mining booms, and the construction of the first transcontinental railroad initially brought economic growth, and the city was nicknamed the Crossroads of the West.

Soviet archeologist Mikhail Artamonov initially placed Balanjar on the site of the modern Daghestani city of Buynaksk, but when later the ruins of a town to the south of Makhachkala were found, he idenitified them as being those of Balanjar.

Over the last 50 years, since its establishment as the capital of Bhutan, Thimphu city has witnessed expansion, initially at a slow pace and rapidly after the country was opened up to the outside world in 1974 during the Coronation of the fourth King, Jigme Singye Wangchuck when international media were present, and which marked Bhutan's " debut appearance on the world stage.

Fischer initially created them in a letter to Leiber in September 1934, naming at the same time their home city of Lankhmar.

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He initially seems willing to forsake Antigone, but when Haemon gently tries to persuade his father to spare Antigone, claiming that ' under cover of darkness the city mourns for the girl ', the discussion deteriorates and the two men are soon bitterly insulting each other.