Chinese Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Crossing the Songpan Grasslands (1935)
On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Grasslands”
Aug 1935 — Above 3,000 meters the column crosses the Songpan marshes: bottomless mud, no fuel, no villages, grass and leather boiled for food. Survivors remembered it as worse than any battle. Of the 86,000 who left Ruijin, several thousand reach the north a year and 9,000 kilometers later.
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- Long March (chapter 7 of Chinese Revolution)
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- China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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