Chinese Revolution · BATTLE SITE · 1949

Yangtze River Crossing campaign (1949)

On the Chinese Revolution map as “The Yangtze crossing”

20–21 Apr 1949 — Once peace terms lapsed, a million men crossed the Yangtze in junks and sampans over two nights, along a 500-km front. Nanjing fell on the 23rd. The war’s last great natural line had been crossed almost without pause, and the Nationalist army south of it existed mostly on paper.

When: 20–21 Apr 1949
Type: Battle site
Chapter: Communist victory in China (1949) (chapter 12 of Chinese Revolution)
Atlas: China in Revolution, 1911–1949

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Map showing Yangtze River Crossing campaign (1949), battle site in China in Revolution, 1911–1949 — BATTLE SITE · CHINA IN REVOLUTION, 1911–1949

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · USdiplomatic records — fallofCanton,Chungking andKunming,October–December1949 · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Natural Earth10m — province reference geometry

Source details

USdiplomatic records — fallofCanton,Chungking andKunming,October–December1949. Historical facts consulted; original prose/artwork not republished
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Natural Earth. Public domain
Natural Earth10m — province reference geometry. Public domain

For October 1949, the earliest 1950 PRC outline is used with the Nationalist southwest removed. Contemporary provincial outlines serve as a disclosed regional proxy for the remaining front. The November and December conquests are excluded.

proxy: 1953earliestseparatepostwarhomereference;occupation1945–49 · proxy: October 1945–1949 control; 1950 physical island reference · reconstruction: 1949.76 · vector: 1948–1949

Layer records and reconstruction methods