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BATTLE // June 3, 1895

Battle of Keelung

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Overview

The Battle of Keelung was the first significant engagement of the Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895) on 2–3 June 1895 when the short-lived Republic of Formosa sought to repel the Japanese military forces sent there to occupy the ceded territories, by China's Qing dynasty, of the Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan under the April 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki. The treaty was the result of China's defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Forces & casualties

Troop strength

  • Empire of Japan7,000
    medium
  • Republic of Formosa12,000
    medium

Republic of Formosa fielded a 1.7 : 1 numerical advantage

Casualties

  • Giappone200
    medium

Commanders (2)

Empire of Japan

Republic of Formosa

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