Mulan's boots: After Mulan retired, she left her war boots here.

木兰挂靴：木兰将军解甲归田后，便将征战时所穿的战靴置于此地。

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The infantry figurines are also rather impressive with their leather helmets, war robe covered with armor and their hemp shoes or boots.

西汉彩绘步兵俑，头戴皮胄，身着战袍，外穿铠甲，脚蹬麻鞋或靴子，栩栩如生。

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If not, it will find that politicians' phones in Warsaw are engaged when it needs boots on the ground in a foreign war.

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Going back to the Korean War, it took the army quartermaster until 1953 to issue thermal boots to the troops on the ground in Korea.

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Despite the moral, humanitarian and strategic arguments for intervention, Syria is a trap that threatens to suck external powers in and shackle them with responsibility for war-making, peacekeeping and a reconstruction effort that could eventually involve thousands of boots on the ground and billions of dollars in assistance.

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