When East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, paeans of joy rose from the throats of Western publicists.

When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.

When the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931, he fled and left Spain, but did not abdicate the throne.

When they saw that the centre had broken, the Elector and Marsin decided the battle was lost and, like the remnants of Tallard's army, fled the battlefield ( albeit in better order than Tallard's men ).

When the Communists captured the Nationalist capital of Nanjing in April 1949, Li refused to accompany the central government as it fled to Guangdong, instead expressing his dissatisfaction with Chiang by retiring to Guangxi.

When the Nazis invaded, the family fled, Singer leaving on a children's transport train with other Jewish children.

When Jason came to know of this, Medea was already gone ; she fled to Athens in a chariot sent by her grandfather, the sun-god Helios.

When he heard the commotion from the senate chamber, Antony fled.

When the Amin regime was collapsing, he fled to Kenya with his family, fearful that he would be seen as a collaborator ; this was more likely because he was a member of the Langi tribe, many of whom were persecuted by Amin, whereas Akii-Bua was cited by Amin as an example of a Langi who was doing well.

When he fled to Venice in 1499 he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.

When the Taliban took power in 1996, all the warlords fled Kabul to the north or neighboring countries.

When Panama was colonized, the indigenous peoples who survived many diseases, massacres and enslavement of the conquest ultimately fled into the forest and nearby islands.

When Otto was carried off the field by his wounded and terrified horse, and Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, severely wounded, was captured by the French, the Flemish and Imperial troops saw that the battle was lost, turned and fled from the battlefield.

When the Eight-Nation Alliance's armies marched into Beijing, Cixi fled the capital only to accept peace terms by paying the foreign powers huge amounts of silver.

When Swedish colleagues feared for a possible German occupation, he managed to leave on a cargo ship, together with Ernst Cassirer ( the former rector of Hamburg University ) to New York City to become part of the wider community of intellectual émigrés who fled there.

When Stigand, who was acting as intermediary, conveyed the king's jest that Godwin could have his peace if he could restore Alfred and his companions alive and well, Godwin and his sons fled, going to Flanders and Ireland.

When Styrbjörn brought this fleet to Uppsala to claim the throne of Sweden, Harald broke his oath and fled with his Danes in order to avoid facing the Swedish army at the Battle of Fýrisvellir.

When they noticed the presence in the escort of the old battleship, HMS Ramillies, they fled the scene, rather than risk damage from her 15 " guns.

When a segment of his army fled from battle, abandoning their weapons, Crassus revived the ancient practice of decimation – i. e., executing one out of every ten men, with the victims selected by drawing lots.

When Sweyn Forkbeard seized the throne at the end of 1013 and Æthelred fled to France, the brothers do not appear to have followed him, but stayed in England.

When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it.

When James II fled at the Glorious Revolution, William refused to accept the title of king consort ( which Philip II of Spain had been granted under Queen Mary I in the 1550s ) and insisted on being named King in his own right.

When the civil war ended in 1949, 2 million refugees, predominantly from the Nationalist government, military, and business community, fled to Taiwan.

When under attack by Napoleon in 1805, Karl Wilhelm may have had the French Blue recut to disguise its identity ; in this form, the stone could have come to Britain in 1806, when his family fled there to join his daughter Caroline of Brunswick.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

When the Communist Party of China took over power, previous schools of thought, excepting notably Legalism, were denounced as backward, and later even purged during the Cultural Revolution.

When asked about Artemisia exports, Li was quoted, " We want to grow them in China and whatever we export depends on bilateral relationships.

When it comes to sauces, China is home to soy sauce, which is made from fermented soya beans and wheat.

When Chiang became President of China after the Northern Expedition, he carved out Ningxia and Qinghai out of Gansu province, and appointed Muslim Generals as Military Governors of all three provinces: Ma Hongkui, Ma Hongbin, and Ma Qi.

" 1947 – 48: When Marshall Kept the U. S. out of War in China.

When having legal status recognized, or defined in law, as in ancient China, concubinage was akin, although inferior, to marriage.

When he later pursued his interest in China, Linebarger became a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek.

When Galileo was viewed as a private-sector development with public-sector financial participation, European Commission program managers sought Chinese participation in pursuit of Chinese cash in the short term and privileged access to China ’ s market for positioning and timing applications in the longer term.

When war came to China in 1937, the firm suffered heavily both in Hong Kong and in mainland China.

When the Pact was signed, invitations were sent to Italy, China, Britain, and Poland to join.

When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, the population stood at 583 million ; by the fifth census in 2000, the population had more than doubled, reaching 1. 2 billion.

When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.

When looking only at expressways the National Trunk Highway System ( NTHS ) in China has a total length of at the end of 2006, and 60, 300 km at the end of 2008, second only to the United States with in 2005.

When Singapore established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China in 1990, Singapore wanted to maintain its good relationship with Taiwan and it strongly bargained with China to maintain the close links.

When Singapore started building its military in the 1970s, the Republic of China on Taiwan was one of the few places to offer assistance by providing training areas to the Singapore Armed Forces ( SAF ) for conducting military exercises.

When negotiations failed, China invaded.

When Siam adopted a gold exchange standard in 1908, this left only China and Hong Kong on the silver standard.

When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20, 000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward.