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Nanchang Uprising (1927)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Nanchang rising”

1 Aug 1927 — Communist-led regiments seize Nanchang for three days — the party’s first army of its own. Driven out and broken, the survivors under Zhu De trickle to the hills. The People’s Liberation Army still dates its founding to this morning.

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Battle site
Chapter
Shanghai purge and Nanjing decade (chapter 5 of Chinese Revolution)
Atlas
China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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Map showing Nanchang Uprising (1927), battle site in China in Revolution, 1911–1949
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