The First Taiwan Strait Crisis ( also the Formosa Crisis , the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis , the Offshore Islands Crisis , and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis ) was a brief armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between the Communist People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Nationalist Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan .

The First Taiwan Strait Crisis ( also the Formosa Crisis , the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis , the Offshore Islands Crisis , and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis ) was a brief armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between the Communist People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Nationalist Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan .

The First Taiwan Strait Crisis ( also the Formosa Crisis , the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis , the Offshore Islands Crisis , and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis ) was a brief armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter between the Communist People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Nationalist Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan .

The Bali Strait Incident was an encounter between a squadron of six French Navy frigates and six British East India Company ( EIC ) East Indiamen in the Bali Strait on 28 January 1797 .

The Bali Strait Incident was an encounter between a squadron of six French Navy frigates and six British East India Company ( EIC ) East Indiamen in the Bali Strait on 28 January 1797 .

However six East Indiamen were sailing Self_motion to transit the Bali Strait on their way to China .

On 28 January , at the entrance to the Strait , Sercey 's squadron and the East Indiamen met Come_together .

The Action of 27 June 1798 was a minor naval engagement Hostile_encounter between British and French frigates in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea .

A Castilian fleet put Placing to sea and inflicted Causation a major defeat Conquering on the Moors in the Strait of Gibraltar .

A lasting political and military standoff Hostile_encounter between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait ensued , with the ROC in Taiwan and the PRC in mainland China both officially claiming Statement to be the legitimate Legality government of all China .

About 45 boats were in the Northumberland Strait between New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island , and they did not have radio to receive Getting warning of the approaching Arriving storm Catastrophe .

This was the second such attempt in three years ; at the Bali Strait Incident of 1797 a French frigate squadron had declined Agree_or_refuse_to_act to engage six East Indiamen on their way to China .

On 24 May , before the final action , `` Bismarck '' s fuel tanks were damaged Damaging and several machinery compartments , including a boiler room , were flooded in the Battle of the Denmark Strait .

After moving Motion over the Taiwan Strait , Sarah made its final landfall Self_motion in Eastern China on September 13 before dissipating Dispersal the following day .

The Russian Baltic Fleet had to withdraw Escaping from the Suur Strait after its losses Earnings_and_losses at the Battle of Moon Sound .

Subsequently , the storm weakened Cause_change_of_strength and moved Motion into the Taiwan Strait before making its final landfall near Quanzhou , China the next day .

The Sunda Strait campaign of January 1794 was a series of manoeuvres and naval actions fought Hostile_encounter between warships and privateers of the French Republic and a squadron of vessels sent Sending by the British East India Company to protect Defending trade in the region , later augmented Cause_change_of_strength by Dutch warships .

French privateers rapidly spread Dispersal along the British trade routes in the Far East , becoming concentrated around the narrow Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in the Dutch East Indies .

The Royal Navy forces in the Indian Ocean were deployed Arranging elsewhere and so the East India Company , the private enterprise that ruled much of British India in the 1790s and maintained Statement their own fleet and navy , raised Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale a squadron of armed Bearing_arms merchant ships to patrol the Strait and drive Self_motion off the raiders .

On 24 January an action against a larger French squadron was fought Hostile_encounter in the Strait itself , but ended Process_end inconclusively and the squadrons divided , the British receiving Receiving the Dutch frigate `` Amazone '' as reinforcements .

The French subsequently turned Motion southwards out of the Strait and attacked Attack Bencoolen again on 9 February , capturing Conquering an East Indiaman in the harbour before returning Arriving to Île de France with their prize .

Danish and Norwegian ships attacked Attack a British convoy off the island of Saltholm in Øresund Strait near Copenhagen .