MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · November 13

THE DAY IN HISTORY · NOVEMBER 13

November 13 in history

1938 — The Changsha fire

13 Nov 1938 — Panicked by Wuhan’s fall, the garrison fires the city ahead of an enemy still 100 km away: some 20,000–30,000 die in the accidental inferno. The war’s waste was not all inflicted by the enemy. (Changsha then repels three Japanese offensives, 1939–42 — the war’s stubborn hinge city.)

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