Marco Polo Bridge incident
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marco-polo-bridge-incident-228-2688035
title:
Marco Polo Bridge incident
text:
The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a battle during July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army. Since the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, there had been many small incidents along the rail line connecting Beijing with the port of Tianjin, but all had subsided. In this incident, a Japanese soldier was temporarily absent
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description:
Initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_incident
date created:
2002-06-05T19:30:30Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T03:51:19Z
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