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{{Infobox Military Conflict |
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{{wikify|date=November 2007}} |
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|conflict=Siege of Tainan |
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When the ] of 1894-1895 ended, the Qing government signed the humiliating ], ceding ] and the ] to ]. The ] living on Taiwan resented to their land being taken over by the Japanese as the Japanese were considered an inferior race by the Chinese. After the Japanese Empire settled into Taiwan, the Chinese citizens unsuccessfully tried to revolt against the new settlers, the first of which occurred in ] in which Chinese generals (Qiu Fengjia and Liu Yongfu) refused to surrender to the Japanese. The generals proclaimed Tainan and Kaohsiung as second Republics of Taiwan. This effort turned out as a failure and the Japanese lay siege to Tainan on October 21, 1895. Originally landing in ] on May 30, ], it had taken the Japanese only five months to destroy Tainan and successfully colonize Taiwan. |
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== References == |
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http://www.geocities.com/apapadimos/Taiwan_Pages/Taiwan_History_3.htm |
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|result=Decisive Japanese victory<br>Capitulation of ]<br>Collapse of ] |
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{{Template:Campaignbox Japanese Invasion of Taiwan (1895)}} |
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The '''Siege of Tainan''' took place in October of 1895, when the Imperial Japanese Army landed in ] and ] to encircle the city of Tainan, then capital of ]. President ], who had been in the position for only a few month, fled the city via a British merchant vessel and left the garrison leaderless. The city eventually capitulated on October 23. |
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Republic of Formosa
Empire of Japan