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Military of the Han dynasty
Imperial Chinese army / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: Timeline of the Han dynasty
The military of the Han dynasty was the military apparatus of China from 202 BC to 220 AD, with a brief interregnum by the reign of Wang Mang and his Xin dynasty from 9 AD to 23 AD, followed by two years of civil war before the refounding of the Han.
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