Zuo Zongtang

Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠) (November 10, 1812 – September 5, 1885) was a Chinese statesman and military leader of the late Qing Dynasty.

• We shall first confront them [the Russians] with arguments...and then settle it on the battlefields.
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