Chinmen
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of Kinmen. alt-of, alternative
"The best educated American guess is that Chiang has 100,000 effective combat soldiers. Generally these troops could hold Formosa and even Hainan. Telling of his visit to Chinmen Island off Amoy only two weeks after the Communists landed 10,000 troops there, he said: "Although the Communists landed behind as well as in front of the Nationalists, the defenders fought back and with reinforcements, destroyed the Communist invaders. They killed 3,000 and captured 6,000-plus enough equipment to arm in full all the Nationalist troops on Chinmen, only 60 per cent of whom had firearms, and two divisions on Formosa as well.""
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More examples"The best educated American guess is that Chiang has 100,000 effective combat soldiers. Generally these troops could hold Formosa and even Hainan. Telling of his visit to Chinmen Island off Amoy only two weeks after the Communists landed 10,000 troops there, he said: "Although the Communists landed behind as well as in front of the Nationalists, the defenders fought back and with reinforcements, destroyed the Communist invaders. They killed 3,000 and captured 6,000-plus enough equipment to arm in full all the Nationalist troops on Chinmen, only 60 per cent of whom had firearms, and two divisions on Formosa as well.""
Etymology
From Mandarin 金門 (Jīnmén) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin¹-mên².
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