The Northern Expedition (Chinese: 北伐; pinyin: běi fá), was a military campaign led by the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1926 to 1928. Its main objective was to unify China under the Kuomintang banner by ending the rule of local warlords. It led to the demise of the Beiyang government and to the Chinese reunification of 1928.
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... Makarov directed two round-the-world oceanographic expeditions on the corvette Vityaz in 1886–89 and in 1894–96 ... Yermak was tested in two Arctic expeditions in 1899 and in 1901 ... he was appointed leader of the western unit of the Great Northern Expedition ...
... Army, set out on the long-delayed Northern Expedition against the northern warlords ... underground activities to facilitate the Northern Expedition, which was finally launched by Chiang from Guangzhou in July 1926 ... Chiang, whose Northern Expedition was proving successful, set his forces to destroying the Shanghai CCP apparatus and established an anti-Communist ...
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