Northern Expedition

The Northern Expedition was a military campaign launched by the National Revolutionary Army to overthrow the Beiying Government and its associated warlord armies in the north. The objective was to reunify a China that had been fractured ever since the 1911 Xinhai Revolution.
The Northern Expedition had been a long term goal of Kuomintang founder Sun Yat-sen, but he was unable to see through those goals within his lifetime due to his death from cancer in 1925. After his passing, a power vacuum for the leadership ensued in which, after the Canton Coup, Chiang Kai-shek took the leadership of the party. In an alliance with the Communist Party of China, known as the United Front, the war began on 9 July 1926.
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