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| | Li Hongzhang Summary |
 | | Despite Li's concerted efforts to build up China's military defenses in the form of a modern army, navy, forts, arsenals, docks, and military academies, he was a realist, although an arrogant one, and recognized that he was bucking a conservative, self-seeking system that was innately opposed to anything Western or anything that involved change. |
 | | Although Li had been opposed to the war, he was blamed for the fiasco, as it was his army and navy that had fought and lost, and he narrowly escaped with his life. |
 | | In fact, it was mostly the armies that he established and controlled that did the fighting, whereas other Chinese troops led by his rivals and political enemies did not come to their aid. |
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