Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising
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Remnants of the Thirteen Factories after the fire | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Supported by: Soviet Union | Canton Merchants' Corps | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Sun Yat-sen Chiang Kai-shek Hu Hanmin Liao Zhongkai Vasily Blyukher (military advisor) |
Chen Lianbo Chen Gongshou Zou Jingxian Li Songshao Deng Jieshi | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 2,000 civilians dead or wounded | |||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 廣州商團事變 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 广州商团事变 | ||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Guangzhou Merchant Corps Incident | ||||||||||||
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The Canton Merchants' Corps Uprising or Canton Merchants' Corps Incident, also known as Burning of Canton was an armed conflict between the Canton Merchants' Volunteer Corps and the Nationalist army in Guangzhou, China, in late 1924. It ended in a decisive government victory.