Formosa Strait

Dulles had apparently asserted that three times—in Korea, Indochina, and the Formosa Strait—he and Eisenhower had taken the nation to “the brink of a new war.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Dulles had apparently asserted that three times—in Korea, Indochina, and the Formosa Strait—he and Eisenhower had taken the nation to “the brink of a new war.”

Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011

Task Force 77 had been holding station east of the Formosa Strait until receiving orders to race west.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

He always had at least one fast-attack or boomer slow-attack submarine in the Formosa Strait, too, something that was advertised only by casual references allowed to leak to the media from time to time.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000

In 1996, he was renewed in his post, this time in free, contested elections that went on despite Chinese naval maneuvers in the Formosa Strait.

THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

Clem 650 tears south, flinging the Inner Sea far inland on Honshu and Kyushu, sending a funneled storm surge over to batter the coast of China, and down into the Formosa Strait.

Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

The storm surge that piles up into the Formosa Strait, between the island of Formosa and the mainland, is funneled and channeled into a stream strong enough to slice off the port cities from Quanzhou to Zhanjiang -- including Hong Kong and Macau -- like water from a fire hose cutting into a snowbank.

Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

Again the U.S. took swift action by ordering the Seventh Fleet to the Formosa Strait.

Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition Polmar, Norman & Laur, Timothy 1990

The _Independence_ steered through the Formosa Strait, across the

Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Here, hauling round on the starboard tack, we shaped our course east - nor'-east, to pass over the Macclesfield Bank, in a straight line almost for Formosa Strait, our most direct route to Shanghai, the proa and the junk still keeping after us at a safe distance off.

Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874