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Travelogue: By Country | By Date China | July 2001  

 

This pit is about 290 meters long and nearly 70 meters wide. The soldiers were buried, in battle order, i.e. with a vanguard, guards along the sides, and organized in groups - in long corridors roofed with timbers and covered with mats and then wood.

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