Modern Chinese Warfare (Warfare and History)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: April 6, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415214735
First sentence: On 15 September 1813, a Manchu prince named Mianning used his musket within the walls of the Forbidden City to fire at invading rebels from the Eight Trigram Uprising, thus breaking the age-old imperial dictate that guns should never be fired in the Forbidden City.