ABSTRACT
The movement to make a token occupation of the principle cities and capitals of the provinces of North Korea was under way in late October 1950. It soon became apparent that this occupation by United Nations forces north of the thirty-eighth parallel was not to be completed without further fighting. A Repub lic of Korea battalion moved north through Kangye toward Mapojin and disap peared. The Eighth Cavalry Regiment of the First Cavalry Division, which was moving to the northwest, was suddenly overrun by a Chinese Communist cavalry division mounted on Mongolian ponies. A column of the First Cavalry Division, advancing directly west to Sinuiju at the mouth of the Yalu River dividing Manchuria and North Korea, came within sight of the town. The sudden attack on the Eighth Cavalry by Chinese Communists caused the First Cavalry Division to halt its advance.
