Meng Enyuan ({{zh, 孟恩遠) (1856–1933) was a Chinese general of the late Qing and early Republican period in China. A native of Tianjin, in what was then the province of Zhili, Meng was commander of the Chinese army garrison in
Jilin
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province before being forced out by
Wu Junsheng
Wu Junsheng, or Wu Tsi-cheng, 吳俊陞, (1863–1928) was a Chinese general, and the cavalry commander of the Fengtian clique.
Wu Junsheng was born to a peasant family in Changtu, Fengtien province (today Liaoning), on November 23, 1863. He jo ...
and
Zhang Zuolin. He later allied with
Wu Peifu and the
Zhili clique
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against Zhang's
Fengtian clique in the
First Zhili-Fengtian War
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1856 births
1933 deaths
Republic of China warlords from Tianjin
Empire of China (1915–1916)