Word: fled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their elevated seats were able to wreak able to wrealy crest havoc among the students. Finally some torch beneath one of the horses, who reared and threw his rider. Other took up the scheme, and the cavalry was routed in great confusion. But the reserves arrived, and the students fled...
...soldiers who defended themselves in Wuchang (and only incidentally defended Wuchang itself) seized the city in the first place as the hired mercenaries of War Lord Wu Pei-fu (now fled), who certainly owes them whatever "back pay" may be their...
Mopping up. Of the two commanders who had defended Wuchang, General Liu Yu-chun was dragged from the house of Dr. A. M. Sherman, Principal of the Central China University, where he had taken refuge; and General Chen Kaimu, onetime Governor of Hupeh province was seized as he fled Wuchang in coolie garb. Though these captured commanders may well have expected that their heads would soon adorn two sharpened poles, they were merely imprisoned. As a mark of special consideration General Liu was supplied by his captors with opium to which he is addicted. Complacent, he dozed into sweet oblivion...
Leaping from his bed Invalid Pierre fled from the hospital, distraught. He rushed out upon a neighboring bridge, disappeared, is thought to have drowned himself...
...Yaqui from behind the drawn blinds of the sleeping cars. For 17 hours the siege continued. At last a portentous puffing was heard. A troop train sent by President Calles to rescue his friend, Ex-President Obregon, steamed up, commanded by Generals Bernal and Montano. Soon the Yaqui fled. General Obregon, his equanimity unruffled, slept that night at his extensive rancho...