The five battles of the Korean War fought in and around the city of Seoul are known as the Battle of Seoul:
First Battle of Seoul – North Korean forces capture Seoul on June 28, 1950
Second Battle of Seoul – United Nations forces capture Seoul from the North Koreans in September 1950, following the Battle of Inchon
Third Battle of Seoul – The Chinese People's Volunteer Army capture Seoul in January 1951
Fourth Battle of Seoul – United Nations forces capture Seoul for the second time during Operation Ripper in March 1951.
Fifth Battle of Seoul – The Chinese People's Volunteer Army fail to recapture Seoul during the Chinese Spring Offensive in April 1951.
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The Second BattleofSeoul resulted in United Nations forces recapturing Seoul from the North Koreans in late September 1950. Before the battle, North Korea...
The First BattleofSeoul (Korean: 제1차 서울 전투), known in North Korean historiography as the Liberation ofSeoul, was the North Korean capture of the South...
Seoul, officially Seoul Special City, is the capital of the Republic of Korea (ROK), commonly known as South Korea, and the country's most extensive urban...
recapture of the South Korean capital ofSeoul two weeks later. The code name for the Inchon operation was Operation Chromite. The battle began on 15...
Operation Ripper, also known as the Fourth BattleofSeoul, was a United Nations (UN) military operation conceived by the US Eighth Army, General Matthew...
(KPA) on 28 June 1950 at the Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul district of South Korea. During the First BattleofSeoul, the KPA wiped out one platoon...
timeline of the history of the city ofSeoul, South Korea. 18 BCE – Baekje, Wirye-seong, settled. Seoul started functioning as the royal capital of Baekje...
needed] Thai support was important to battles determining the outcome of the war, such as the Third BattleofSeoul.[citation needed] In July 1950, Thailand...
fighting in Seoul they liberated the city. After the liberation ofSeoul, the division was put back on ships and taken to the eastern side of the Korean...
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Strategic Air Command. Within weeks of the Chinese attack, MacArthur was forced to retreat from North Korea. Seoul fell in January 1951, and both Truman...
used as the headquarters of the governor-general of Korea. At the end of the Third BattleofSeoul in 1951 during the Korean War, communist Chinese and...
in the capture of Inchon, Korea, on 15 September 1950 in the Inchon-Seoul Operation. His actions contributed materially to the success of this operation...
ofbattles with most United States military fatalities, in terms of American deaths. This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U...
Second BattleofSeoul, South Korean authorities arrested and summarily executed several individuals along with their families on suspicion of sympathizing...
The Battleof Kapyong (Korean: 가평전투; 22–27 April 1951), also known as the Battleof Jiaping (Chinese: 加平战斗; pinyin: Jiāpíng Zhàn Dòu), was fought during...
during the Battleof the Bowling Alley, M26s of the 73rd Tank Battalion, which supported the ROK 1st Infantry Division during the Battleof Tabu-dong,...
Workers' Party of Korea. In the Korean War, he was a commander of the North Korean troops on the front lines.[citation needed] A Japanese history of the Kim...
forces retook Seoul following the Second BattleofSeoul but moved to Busan on January 3, 1951, during the Third BattleofSeoul, with members of the editorial...
the 1st Marines, assaulted the beaches of Inchon. The regiment then went on to take part in the liberation ofSeoul and later in the Chosin Reservoir Campaign...
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