Zhennanguan Uprising

December 1, 1907 · Zhennanguan, Guangxi

Uprising on 1 December 1907 at Zhennanguan (Friendship Pass) on the Chinese-Vietnamese border. Revolutionaries sent by Sun Yat-sen captured the cannon tower with help from sympathetic defenders, and Sun, Huang Xing, and Hu Hanmin went to command; Qing troops under Long Jiguang and Lu Rongting counterattacked, forcing a retreat into the mountains, after which Sun moved to Singapore.

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