| − | The Long March was a 6,000 mile retreat of the Chinese Communist Army back to northwest [[China]]. Few people made it back alive. | + | The Long March was a 6,000 mile retreat of the Chinese [[Communist]] Army back to northwest [[China]]. Following soon after the rout of the Communist Party in 1927-1928, this completed the destruction of the Communists as a viable political or military force. They never recovered from this defeat. |