- Wu
Peifu (also
spelled Wu P'ei-fu) (Chinese: 吳佩孚;
April 22, 1874 –
December 4, 1939) was a
Chinese warlord and
major figure in the
struggles between the...
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Zhang Zuolin, from the
coalition Zhili-Fengtian
government in Beijing. Wu
Peifu was
credited as the
strategist behind Zhili's victory.
Having jointly seized...
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founded by Feng
Guozhang but led
after Feng's
death by Cao Kun and Wu
Peifu, were the prin****l
Beiyang cliques. Disunited, the
power of the Beiyang...
- that were
hostile to the KMT
government in Guangzhou. The
forces of Wu
Peifu occupied northern Hunan, Hubei, and
Henan provinces. The
coalition of Sun...
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decided to
remove both of them, with the help of Cao's
former subordinate, Wu
Peifu.
Zhang Zuolin then led the
Beiyang government until 1928. The
warlords of...
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before beginning to
purvey herbs gathered by others. The
Zhili warlord Wu
Peifu (吳佩孚) took him into his home in an
attempt to
discover the
secret of living...
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revolutionaries against the Qing dynasty. He rose to high rank
within Wu
Peifu's Zhili warlord faction but
launched the
Beijing Coup in 1924 that knocked...
- Zhili–An**** War (1920)
though the
credit belongs to his
chief lieutenant, Wu
Peifu, the
greatest strategist in
China at the time.
Relations with the Fengtian...
- the
Zhili Clique after the Zhili–An**** War. In 1922 the
Zhili warlords Wu
Peifu and Cao Kun
restored the "old"
parliament elected in 1912. Cao
bribed the...
- Sun Yat-sen's
Northern Expedition. In May, Wu
Peifu had a
secret appointment with Chen Jiongming. Wu
Peifu expelled Xu
Shichang in the north, and Chen Jiongming...