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[[underlined]] APPENDIX [[overwritten]] A [[/overwritten]] ^[[II]] [[/underlined]]         13.

which extended on into the full light of history, it fought mainly in the basin of the Yellow River (that is, outside of its own territory), by means of armies composed of chariots, footmen (including large bodies of ill-disciplined and not very reliable "barbarian" auxiliaries), and probably mounted troops---most likely light lancers riding bareback and serving chiefly as scouts, skirmishers, and foragers. [[superscript]] (37) [[/superscript]] 
In 611 B.C. Ch'u narrowly escaped overthrow in a general uprising of its subject population, coupled with an attack by still unsubdued tribes in the hills; and only the courage and resolution of its king, the famous Ch'u Chuang Wang, backed by the fighting ability of its own warlike squirearchy and outside aid from Pa and Ch'in, extricated it from deadly peril.[[superscript]] (38) [[/superscript]]
A little over a generation later, in 575 B.C., Ch'u suffered a great defeat from Chin; [[strikethrough]] (see 2nd paragr. above); [[/strikethrough]] whereupon the rising [[strikethrough]] stat [[/strikethrough]] state of Wu 吴 (to be mentioned a little later), a tributary of Ch'u in the Yangtze embouchure region [[strikethrough]] (see page 12) [[/strikethrough]] seized the opportunity to declare independence and hostility. 
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At a somewhat later period, toward the close of the 4th century B.C., we are told (by one Su Ch'in  蘇秦; see Giles, [[underlined]] Biogr. Dict., [[/underlined]] no. 1775) that Ch'u had 10,000 cavalry. While not a fact susceptible of proof in our present state of archaeological knowledge, it seems not unlikely that Ch'u was already employing mounted troops (though not horse-archers) much farther back in the Eastern Chou period.
On the general question of the acquisition of cavalry by the ancient Chinese, see pp. 282 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] of the text. 
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It may aid the Occidental reader to orientate himself in matters of chronology to note that this servile insurrection (for such it appears to have been) in Ch'u occurred at the exact time when the might of Assyria was succumbing to the combined attacks of the Medes and Babylonians.
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During much of the remainder of the 6th century B.C., Ch'u was engaged in wars with Wu, waged largely on the waters of the Yangtze and

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