Pescadores Campaign
{'<entity_0>': 'First Sino-Japanese War', '<entity_1>': 'Pescadores Campaign', '<entity_2>': '23 March 1895', '<entity_3>': '26 March 1895', '<entity_4>': 'Penghu County', '<entity_5>': 'Taiwan', '<entity_6>': 'China'}
[['Pescadores Campaign', 'end time', '26 March 1895'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'start time', '23 March 1895'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'part of', 'First Sino-Japanese War'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'location', 'Penghu County'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'point in time', '26 March 1895'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'location', 'China'], ['Pescadores Campaign', 'location', 'Taiwan']]
The <entity_1> (<entity_2>–<entity_3>) was the last military operation of the <entity_0> and an essential preliminary to the Japanese conquest of <entity_5>. As the <entity_0> approached its end, the Japanese took steps to ensure that Qing-ruled Formosa (<entity_5>) and the Pescadores (<entity_4>) would be ceded to Japan under the eventual peace treaty. Although hostilities in northern <entity_6> were halted during the peace negotiations that eventually resulted in the Treaty of Shimonoseki (April 1895), <entity_5> and the Pescadores were specifically excluded from the scope of the armistice, allowing the Japanese to mount a military operation against them without imperiling the peace negotiations. The key to the capture of <entity_5> was the Pescadores, which lay midway between mainland <entity_6> and <entity_5>.
['military campaign']