Battle of Dachen Archipelago

Battle of Dachen Archipelago
	Part of the Cross-Strait conflict and Chinese Civil War
	; Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Operations and Readiness, holding a press-conference at the Pentagon on the evacuation of the Tachen Islands, February 2, 1955.
Date	January 19, 1955 – February 26, 1955
Location	Tachen Islands, Chekiang, Republic of China; (Now Jiaojiang District, Taizhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China)
Result	PLA victory
Belligerents
Republic of China United States Navy	People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
Alfred M. Pride; Chiang Ching-kuo	Zhang Aiping
Strength
15,000	28,000
Casualties and losses
minor	minor

The Battle of Dachen Archipelago (simplified Chinese: 大陈等岛之战; traditional Chinese: 大陳等島之戰; pinyin: Dàchén Děng Dǎo Zhī Zhàn) was a struggle between the Nationalists and the Communists for the control of several archipelagos just off the coast of Zhejiang, China, during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era, and it was part of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis. The PLA targeted and eventually took the Dachen Archipelago, and the other two smaller archipelagos from Nationalists: the Southern Muntjac Archipelago (simplified Chinese: 南麂山列岛; traditional Chinese: 南麂山列島; pinyin: Nán Jǐshān Liè Dǎo) and the Southern Deer Mountain Archipelago (simplified Chinese: 南鹿山列岛; traditional Chinese: 南鹿山列島; pinyin: Nán Lùshān Liè Dǎo).

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