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2. another is placename , Wuhan include 3 city zone, WuChang, HanKow , HanYang.
North of Yanztze river is HanKow and HanYang, Wuchang at south, HanYang midst of Yanztze river & Han river.
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I can't remember how the mapname was chosen, probably because Hankow was a city name more in use amongst western historians. The other city/town names were taken from Google earth and therefore reflect present day names. An inconsistency I'm sure but just a way of getting the map done.

So I guess the Hankow/Wuhan bridge would be another inconsistency in the timeline, but, well it does make a nice target. I postulated a bridge because of the railroad crossing the river, but then again maybe back during WWII trains were ferried over the river in sections ... ?

If there is any real problem with calling the city Hankow, the name can always be changed ...

Hi, agracier, If u need some assured information for Wuhan(Hankou), I can help u.

the issue of placename is simple in fact. WuChang, HanKou , HanYang are 3 town , they composing one city is Wuhan.

Since 1927 3 town a general designation is Wu Han, means, Wu Chang + Han Kou + Han Yang


Another, you are right, before 1957, trains need ferried over the river.

This is Great Chairman mao's one poem

水调歌头 游泳
1956.06
才饮长江水，又食武昌鱼。
万里长江横渡，极目楚天舒。
不管风吹浪打，胜似闲庭信步，今日得宽余。
子在川上曰：逝者如斯夫！
风樯动，龟蛇静，起宏图。
一桥飞架南北，天堑变通途。
更立西江石壁，截断巫山云雨，高峡出平湖。
神女应无恙，当今世界殊。


Swimming

I have just drunk the waters of Changsha
And come to eat the fish of Wuchang.
Now I am swimming across the great Yangtze,
Looking afar to the open sky of Chu.
Let the wind blow and waves beat,
Better far than idly strolling in courtyard.
Today I am at ease.
It was by a stream that the Master said --
"Thus do things flow away!"

Sails move with the wind.
Tortoise and Snake are still.
Great plans are afoot:
A bridge will fly to span the north and south,
Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare;
Walls of stones will stand upstream to the west
To hold back Wushan's clouds and rain
Till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges.
The mountain goddess if she is still there
Will marvel at a world so changed.


I found some link for Battle of Wuhan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wuhan

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