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apr 25, 1951 - Vastly outnumbered UN forces check the Chinese advance on Seoul at the Battles of Kapyong and the Imjin River

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Two Commonwealth battalions; the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry Regiment; and the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment; rebuff an entire Chinese division at Kapyong. And 4,000 men of the British 29th Brigade stage a successful delaying action against nearly 30,000 troops of the Chinese 63rd Army at the Imjin River. Some 650 men of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment (the “Glorious Glosters”), engage in a stand against more than 10,000 Chinese infantry at Imjin. Although the overwhelming majority of the Glosters are killed or captured, their sacrifice allows UN forces to consolidate their lines around the South Korean capital

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apr 25, 1951
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~ 74 years ago