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Battle of Guningtou

The Battle of Guningtou (古寧頭之役), also known as the Battle of Kuningtou or the Battle of Kinmen (Chinese: 金門戰役), was fought in October 1949 on the island of Kinmen (Quemoy), located in the Taiwan Strait, during the final stages of the Chinese Civil War.

Battle of Guningtou
Battle of Guningtou · CIA (base map), Ran (derivative work), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
When
25 Oct 1949 – 27 Oct 1949
Where
Kinmen County
Era
Contemporary

Topics

China1,046 BCE – todayTaiwan1661 – todayRepublic of China1859 – 1949

Before and after

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