What was the "Long March"? Where did it begin and where did it end?

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http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/crc.html
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cultrev.htm
http://www.wellseley.edu/Polisci/wj/China/CRSongs/crsongs.html
http://www.morningsun.org/red/
http://www.chinapage.org/main2.html
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio~state.edu/exhib/poster/exhibintro.html

Answer 1

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Answer 2

"The first movements of the retreat were undertaken by forces led by Fang Zhimin, breaking through Kuomintang lines in June 1934, followed by Fe Ke Yu in August. Although Fang Zhimin's troops were soon neutralized, these movements surprised the Kuomintang, who were numerically superior to the Communists at the time and did not expect an attack on their fortified perimeter.
The early troop movements were actually a diversion to allow the retreat of more important leaders from Jiangxi. On 16 October 1934, a force of 130,000 under Bo Gu and Li De attacked the line of Kuomintang positions near Yudu. More than 86,000 troops, 11,000 administrative personnel and thousands of civilian porters actually completed the breakout; the remainder, largely wounded or ill soldiers, continued to fight a delaying action after the main force had left, and then dispersed into the countryside.[6] Several prominent members of the Chinese Soviet who remained behind were captured and executed by the Kuomintang after occupation of Ruijin in November 1934, including Qu Qiubai and the youngest brother of Mao Zedong, Mao Zetan.

On November 19, 1935, the Second Red Army set out on its own Long March. He Long's force was driven further west than the First Red Army, all the way to Lijiang in Yunnan province, then across the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain massif and through the Tibetan highlands of western Sichuan.


After an expedition of almost a year, the Second Red Army reached Bao'an (Shaanxi) on 22 October 1936, known in China as the “union of the three armies”, and the end of the Long March."

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