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| | The Cold War Museum - First and Second Taiwan Strait Crisis |
 | | Quemoy and Matsu were Formosan islands and Formosa had been the stronghold of Chiang Kai-shek ever since that general had been driven from the mainland. | | | The Nationalist-held islands of Jinmen (Chin-men in Wade Giles but often referred to as Kinmen or Quemoy) and Mazu (Ma-tsu in Wade-Giles), just 8 miles off the coast of mainland China, between Taiwan and mainland China, were occupied by Chiang Kai-Shek's forces but claimed by the Chinese Communists. | | | The PRC could claim a limited victory because Chinese Nationalist troops had withdrawn from Tachen Island during the previous month. |
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http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/taiwan_straits.php3
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| | But Quemoy is so very close to the Chinese mainland that it is as if Hitler’s forces had, for some reason, not been able to seize an island just two kilometres off the coast of Dunkirk, or Brest. | | | Chiang Kai-shek had forfeited American confidence since 1945 and had the US recognised the Communist regime in 1950 he may well have been defeated not long thereafter. | | | We now know that, at Beidaihe, before the shelling of Quemoy, Mao described America’s Asian alliances to his senior Party colleagues as defensive in nature. |
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http://www.austhink.org/monk/Quemoy.doc
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| | AII POW-MIA - Quemoy and Matsu Islands |
| | From 23 August through October of 1958, the Communist government resumed a massive artillery bombardmentof Quemoy and Matsu, and threatened invasion. | | | Once the shelling began, the United States made it clear that it would support the ROC in the defense of the islands. | | | It is clear from recently published Chinese documents that Mao launched the attack on purpose to show his independence of the USSR. |
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http://www.aiipowmia.com/koreacw/twncrisisfas.html
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| | Report to the American People Regarding the Situation in the Formosa Straits by Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| | "If the present bombardment and harassment of Quemoy should be converted into a major assault, with which the local defenders could not cope, then we would be compelled to face precisely the situation that Congress visualized in 1955. | | | These two islands have always been a part of Free China—never under Communist control. | | | "On the morning of August 23rd the Chinese Communists opened a severe bombardment of Quemoy, an island in the Formosa Straits off the China Coast. |
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http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=718
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| | IS-Niou-0400 |
| | Hence, while the offshore islands were not critical to the defense of Taiwan, it was believed that the loss of the islands to the Communists would have “bad, possibly disastrous, psychological effects” on the Chinese Nationalists. | | | Although the PRC had captured the Tachen islands, the Communists, in light of the fact that the US was still unclear about its willingness to get involved militarily, could not afford to give way to over-confidence and step up the level of its assault on other Nationalist controlled regions. | | | Although in the 1950s US commitment to defend the island of Taiwan from PRC invasion was never in question, the US was, even at the height of a risky crisis, ambiguous about its commitment to defend Taiwan’s offshore islands. |
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http://taiwansecurity.org/IS/IS-Niou-0400.htm
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| | Kinmen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, direct travel was suspended in 2003 as a result of the SARS outbreak. | | | This did not sit well with residents, and the Democratic Progressive Party has sharply backed away from that position to the extent that it added Quemoy and the other small islands to its party flag which contains a map of Taiwan. | | | Quemoy is geographically very near Xiamen (also known as Amoy). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quemoy
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| | Kennedy-Nixon Debate #3: John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon |
| | Dulles at a press conference said: "The treaty that we have with the Republic of China excludes Quemoy and Matsu from the treaty area." That was done with much thought and deliberation. | | | He's indicating that we should fight for these islands come what may because they are, in his words, in the area of freedom. | | | General Twining said they were still doing it in 1959. |
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http://www.kiva.net/~jsagarin/sports/kenix03.htm
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| | Tachen Islands.html |
| | During the mid-1950s a major artillary attack on Quemoy and Matsu, was thought to be the beginning of another invasion attempt on the islands by the communists. | | | A communist invasion of these islands was beaten back during 1949 but the threat of another invasion attempt was ever present, and military skirmishes over these islands were constant. | | | Chang Kai-sheck, supported by America retreated to Formosa and several other smaller islands named the Tachen Islands, the Pescadores, Quemoy, and Matsu, all of which were in artillary range of the mainland. |
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http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/5943/p1tachen.html
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| | Taiwan tempts China as it loosens grip on island - World - www.theage.com.au |
| | But taking Quemoy and nearby islands would further cement the political separation of Taiwan from the mainland, analysts believe, as well as confirming Beijing as aggressive. | | | But seizing Quemoy and other islands would make Beijing look like a bully. | | | The communist People's Liberation Army attacked Quemoy in October that year, sending 9000 troops across the 12-kilometre strait from Xiamen port. |
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Taiwan-tempts-China-as-it-loosens-grip-on-island/2004/12/08/1102182357329.html
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| | TIMEasia.com Visions of China: Quemoy 9/27/99 |
| | Most likely the Helmsman hoped to convince Taiwanese that Chiang could not protect them, and to rally mainland China's masses behind his nascent Great Leap Forward. | | | But neither did U.S. planners feel they could back down in the face of Chinese communist aggression. | | | These days, however, troop levels on Quemoy are one-fifth of their previous number, and in recent years Taipei has opened the island to tourists. |
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http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/99/0927/quemoy.html
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| | Taiwan Strait Crisis - US Air Force Museum Cold War History Gallery |
| | In response, the Communists began a large artillery barrage against the Nationalist forces on Quemoy during September 1954. | | | On August 23, 1958, Communist Chinese forces once again began a large artillery attack on the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. | | | US politicians and diplomats supported the Nationalists while looking for a way to end the conflict. |
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http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/history/coldwar/cw15.htm
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| | Quemoy - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Quemoy |
| | When the islands were shelled from the mainland in 1960, the USA declared they would be defended if attacked. | | | Quemoy: area 130 sq km/50 sq mi; Matsu: 44 sq km/17 sq mi; population (Quemoy and Matsu, 1996 est) 53,300. | | | China claims Quemoy; the USA supported Taiwan until 1979, eight years after Taiwan had ceased to be a member of the United Nations. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Quemoy
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| | Fujian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since then, the communist government of the People's Republic of China has controlled most of Fujian province, while the Republic of China has held on to the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. | | | With the easing of cross-Straits relationships and the democratization of Taiwan in the 1990s, the islands were returned to civilian government. | | | Most of the authority of the ROC's Fuchien province has been delegated to the two county governments of Quemoy and Matsu. |
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| | The Cold War Museum - Taiwan Crisis |
| | Though Mao claimed the renewed shelling resulted from a desire "to teach the Americans a lesson" for intruding in China's affairs with Taiwan, in actuality, his decision was grounded in the belief that an international crisis could benefit the Chinese. | | | During the next few years, Taiwan and the nearby islands of Quemoy (also known as Jinmen) and Matsu became the focal point of one of the most contentious episodes of Cold War history. | | | The United States, in turn, responded to China's attack of Quemoy with little ambiguity. |
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http://www.coldwar.org/articles/50s/taiwan_crisis.php3
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| | World History 1957- 1958 |
| | The Communists began bombarding Quemoy and Matsu with long range guns, attempting to cut off supply lines to the islands. | | | Quemoy and Matsu are two islands located off the Chinese coast. | | | President Eisenhower announced that the United States considered defense of the islands essential to the defense of Taiwan. |
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http://www.multied.com/dates/1957.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Archive Search |
| | A group of officials and reporters from Quemoy will visit the Chinese port of Xiamen on January 1 and hopes to accompany back to Quemoy islanders who have been stranded in China since 1949. | | | Earlier this month Taiwan dropped the ban on direct contact with China which had been in force for more than 50 years. | | | A group of Taiwanese pilgrims will sail from Matsu to the mainland city of Fuzhou the same day to visit a temple. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4110529,00.html
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| | F 104A deployment to Taiwan during the Quemoy Crisis In 1958 |
| | On August 23.1958, Mainland China began massive artillery shelling of Quemoy, a tiny group of islands off the Mainland China coast but was still held by the Nationalist China Government in Taiwan. | | | The shelling of Quemoy was reduced on September 13.1958 and was suspended on October 6.1958. | | | Author's note: This is not an article on the complete history of the 1958 Quemoy Crisis. |
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http://www.916-starfighter.de/F-104_USA_Quemoy.htm
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| | JFK LINK - rmn151060_quemoy |
| | We must be united because it is certain that the Communists respect only strength, firmness, and unity on the part of the free world and on the part of America above all. | | | The effect of Senator Kennedy's statements on Quemoy and Matsu and Formosa has been to present to the enemies of freedom in the world a picture of an America divided on this great issue. | | | The great mission of our time is to defend and strengthen freedom, and to build a dependable and just peace. |
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http://www.jfklink.com/speeches/rmn/oct60/rmn151060_quemoy.html
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| | Day 6 Update |
| | Without adequate radar, the Chinese could encounter some difficulties in maneuvering around the Quemoy waters and find themselves in a face to face position with angry Taiwanese forces. | | | This would appear to confirm the recent rumors that China is prepared to land a sizable military force on Quemoy to retake the strategic island. | | | Intelligence sources said these vessels were conducting reinforcements to the Taiwanese military installment on Quemoy. |
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http://yale.edu/ycias/Simulation/Info-Updates/UPDATE_FINAL/Day6Update.html
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| | Quemoy (Kinmen) |
| | Taiwan stations as many as 55,000 troops on the offshore island of Kinmen [Quemoy]. | | | Kinmen was the site of fierce fighting between Communist and Nationalist forces when the latter withdrew from the mainland in 1949. | | | Mount Shuhao stretches into the sea where precipitous cliffs have formed as a result of sea wave erosion. |
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| | Historical Center Seeks Quemoy-Matsu Crisis Veterans |
| | 3, 1954, PRC forces began to shell Quemoy, and Communist Premier Chou En-lai publicly called for the “liberation” of Taiwan. | | | Quemoy, Matsu, Taiwan, and numerous other islands off the east coat of China still occupied by Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Chinese forces after the 1949 civil war on the mainland, were the site of a major confrontation between the Republic of China and Mao Tse-tung’s People’s Republic of China (PRC). | | | In the face of continued communist attacks, including the amphibious seizure of Ichiang Island in the Tachen group southeast of Shanghai, the U.S. Congress adopted the Formosa Resolution that implied an American commitment to defend not only Taiwan, but Quemoy and Matsu. |
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| | Payback time - RPGnet Forums |
| | This pic is for a CIA agent's memoirs dealing with china back in the 50's and 60's-- I was forced to put the island on there-- see accompaning rant, "enslaved artists" | | | Before anyone asks, that glowing obelesk is the Quemoy Island- part of asia. | | | Quemoy is really called Jinmen, which means 'Golden Gate' - I don't know where the name 'Quemoy' comes from, it could be some portuguese corruption or renaming like Formosa, the old name for Taiwan. |
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http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=31027
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| | DTM Power - View Profile: QueMoY ///M |
| | Contact Us - DTM Power - Archive - | | | QueMoY ///M is not a member of any public groups | | | Send a message via email to QueMoY ///M |
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| | Planet Ark |
| | Quemoy had invited bids last Thursday, but the bidding was postponed due to a dispute with the three foreign bidders, who were belatedly asked to prepare bids on a total cost basis after submitting quotations on a dollars per square metre basis. | | | Human rights groups say at least 12 civilians have been killed or crippled in landmine accidents in Quemoy, also known as Kinmen, since 1951 - but none in the past 20 years. | | | The beaches of Quemoy, which lie within sight of Fujian's Xiamen city, were sown with landmines to prevent Mao Zedong's Red Army from pursuing Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Nationalist troops after the latter lost a civil war and fled the mainland in 1949. |
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http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9377
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| | Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-bian, is trying to use the new policy to show the people of Taiwan and the United States that his interest in improving ties with the mainland is sincere. | | | Neither Beijing nor local Chinese authorities have said how or under what conditions they will allow Chinese citizens to travel to Quemoy or Matsu. | | | "This is like coming back to my home soil," Chen Shui-tsai, commissioner of Quemoy, also known as Kinmen, said at a news conference after leading a 192-member delegation on the 200-ton Tai Wu to Xiamen. |
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| | News Update # 5 |
| | Taiwan has occupied Quemoy since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters fled the mainland to take refuge on Taiwan. | | | This became apparent yesterday afternoon when Chinese President Jiang Zemin sent a correspondence to all high ranking government and military figures in Taiwan demanding that the Taipei government remove all military personnel from the island of Quemoy. | | | In response, Taiwan announced that it would not remove the forces under such duress and that China should loosen its strangle-hold on the island. |
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| | AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version |
| | The series was said to have received strong endorsement from the political department of the People's Liberation Army. | | | To revisit the massive shelling of Quemoy (known by Taiwanese as Kinmen) is a clear indication of the military's intentions, said Xu Yan, head of the strategy research office of National Defence University. | | | An article by PLA Air Force Lieutenant-General Liu Yazhou focused on the debacle of the mainland's attempt to storm Quemoy in 1949. |
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| | JFK LINK - jfk101060_quemoy |
| | Nixon had "sought to have us involved" in the Indochina war in 1954. | | | STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN F. Senator John F. Kennedy charged today that Vice President Nixon's stand on Quemoy and Matsu may involve American boys in an unnecessary or futile war". |
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| | 2/19/96 INT/ASIA: TIGHT LITTLE ISLAND |
| | Last month Wu King-chan, the official whom Taiwan has appointed "governor" of Fujian province--though of course China doesn't recognize his authority--moved his office from Taipei to Quemoy for the first time since the Nationalist government was driven from the mainland in 1949. | | | THE VIEW FROM QUEMOY'S HORSE Hill military observation station across the 2.4 km of sea that separates the island from China seems too placid to be true. | | | Like him, the people of Quemoy greet each new Chinese scare story with cheerful defiance. |
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http://www.time.com/time/international/1996/960219/quemoy.html
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| | 09091 |
| | The ships sailed from Taiwan’s Quemoy and Matsu islands to the mainland ports of Xiamen [shah-men] and Fuzhou [foo-joe]. | | | The United States welcomes the decision by Taiwan to begin direct trade, travel, and postal links between Quemoy and Matsu and the Chinese ports of Xiamen and Fuzhou. | | | For the first time in more than half a century, ships have traveled legally from Taiwan to cities on the Chinese mainland. |
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| | Political Communication and Cognition Learning |
| | Quemoy and Matsu -- The first of our presidential debates featured John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. | | | Neither did anyone in 1960 -- before or after the debate. | | | Debate watchers knew the form, and they did not need to know or remember the "content." |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~c030172/lectures/03learning.htm
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| | Cascon Case QUM: Quemoy-Matsu 1954-58 |
| | The PRC took over the Tachen Islands in February 1955 without US interference, but thereafter the US established bases on Taiwan and stated that the islands would be protected by the Nationalists with US aid (with hints of nuclear power). | | | When the Korean War began in June 1950 President Truman "leashed" Chiang but interposed the 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits, which enabled Chiang to fortify the offshore islands of Quemoy, Matsu and the Tachens. | | | When the Chinese Communists (PRC) gained control of mainland China in 1949 from the Nationalists, their attempts to take over the offshore islands failed and exiled Nationalist leader Gen. Chiang Kai-shek continued to exercise sovereignty over Taiwan and Quemoy-Matsu, plus the Tachens. |
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| | CNN.com - Transcripts |
| | Instead, the talk on Quemoy is of trade and exchanges. | | | It remains the one issue that could still bring the United States and China into armed conflict. | | | And many hope growing economic ties, like those evident here in Quemoy, will lay the groundwork for an expansion of direct travel and trade links and eventually for political progress. |
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/15/lad.07.html
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| | Re: History Test--Quemoy and Matsu |
| | After the debate, Quemoy and Matsu dropped off the radar screen and we seldom if ever heard of them again. | | | It almost seemed as though the candidates got together beforehand and flipped a coin to see who would take which side of the argument they created. | | | Did anyone else gain a certain amount of cynicism from watching that debate 40 years ago? |
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http://www.newagtalk.com/_disc17/00000524.htm
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| | spectrum 9-01-97 |
| | A tour of Quemoy has been organized by three chapters of Philippine-based Quemoy Association. | | | Alumni interested to join the trip may see Willy Sy Chun Yuan (in Cebu) or Henry Ang (in Iligan) for more information. | | | The trip will bring overseas Quemoyanons on a socio-cultural pilgrimage to their ancestral home of Quemoy, Fukien, where most LCHS alumni have their roots. |
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http://www.geocities.com/spectrumarchive/09-01-97.html
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| | Quemoy - definition of Quemoy by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | An island and group of 2 islands and 12 islets off southeast China in Taiwan Strait. | | | Quemoy - definition of Quemoy by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Quemoy
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| | U.S. News & World Report: Island fortress. (Quemoy, Taiwan)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Those pristine beaches are filled with land mines; the pine forests conceal ancient American-made tanks, and the foothills have been hollowed out to house a labyrinthine network of bunkers and barracks that would make Saddam Hussein weep with envy. | | | QUEMOY, TAIWAN-AT first glance, the granite foothills, dense pine forests and white beaches of this remote island in the Taiwan Strait give it the appearance of a tame tourist resort. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:10651353&num=1
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Those Damn Islands Quemoy Mats |
| | Use Your Account to view or change your orders | | | Look for books like Those Damn Islands Quemoy Mats by subject: | | | If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available. |
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| | Encyclopedia Listings for to Quemoy on The History Channel |
| | THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks. | | | Encyclopedia Listings for to Quemoy on The History Channel | | | Please find below the encyclopedia listing for Quelimane to Quemoy. |
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http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/encyclopedia/listing.php?from=Quelimane&to=Quemoy
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| | Chiang fortified two islands just 8 miles >from the coast of China as bases for his re-conquest of China. | | | Chiang >provoked China on 2 occasions by moving large numbers of troops to these > Islands, Quemoy & Matsu. | | | >CRISIS EVENTS: >1954 Aug: Chiang moves 58,000 troops to Quemoy & 15,000 to Matsu. |
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