Huang Chieh (; 2 November 1902 – 14 January 1995) was a

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

Army General from

Hunan Hunan (, ; ) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, part of the South Central China region. Located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze watershed, it borders the province-level divisions of Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to ...

and was considered one of the best generals and administrators in Taiwan's Nationalist China leadership. He was commissioned into the Cavalry Branch as a graduate of the first class of

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in 1922. As a young

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, he studied at the

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in Germany between 1929 and 1930, qualifying the main General Staff Course. After

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fell under the control of the

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in 1949, General Huang led 30,000

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soldiers to Vietnam and they were stationed at

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. Later, the army moved to Taiwan in June 1953. There is currently a small island in

Chengcing Lake Chengcing Lake (), also known as the Cheng Ching Lake, Dabei Lake (大貝湖), or Toapi Lake () in Taiwanese, is an artificial lake located in Niaosong, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The lake is not far from downtown Kaohsiung and the major suburban distr ...

that was constructed in November 1955 and named

(富國島) in memory of the fleeing Chinese soldiers in 1949.2009年03月31日
抗日名将黄杰与最后一支离开大陆的国民党部队
凤凰资讯 Huang was

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Taiwan Province Taiwan Province (; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ, PFS: ''Thòi-vàn-sén'' or ''Thòi-vân-sén'') is a nominal Administrative divisions of Taiwan, administrative division of the Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC). Its definition has remained part of the Constit ...

from 1962 to 1969 and the ROC Minister of Defense from 1969 to 1972. He was fluent in German, French and Russian.

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, - 1902 births 1995 deaths National Revolutionary Army generals from Hunan Politicians from Changsha Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Republic of China politicians from Hunan Chairpersons of the Taiwan Provincial Government Taiwanese Ministers of National Defense Taiwanese people from Hunan Chinese expatriates in Germany {{Taiwan-KMT-politician-stub