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The French Tonkin commemorative medal commemorates several battles of the Sino-French War. French soldiers in Tonkin, c. 1890. Li Hongzhang and Zeng Jize were key Chinese officials in the negotiations between China, France, and Vietnam. At the time, Li was the viceroy of Zhili and chief minister of Beiyang. Zeng was the Chinese ambassador to ...
Chinese regular soldiers photographed during the Sino-French war Bang Bo, Ky Lua and the Retreat from Lạng Sơn, March 1885. By the middle of March nine separate Chinese military commands were massed close up to the Tonkinese border around the enormous entrenched camps of Yen Cua Ai and Bang Bo. There were six main Chinese concentrations.
Li Hongzhang and Jules Patenotre after signing the treaty. The Treaty of Tianjin (Chinese: 中法新約), signed on June 9, 1885, officially ended the Sino-French War.The "unequal treaty", or colonial treaty, restated in greater detail the main provisions of the Tianjin Accord, signed between France and China on May 11, 1884.
The Sino-French War (1884–1885) — military campaign furthering French colonisation in Asia and later founding of French Indochina (1887–1954). Centered in Tonkin , it involved Vietnam , the French Third Republic , and Qing dynasty China.
The Sino-French War ended with the Chinese military pushed out of Tonkin, and the resulting peace treaty between France and China, signed at Tientsin on 9 June 1885, forced China to abandon its historic claim to suzerainty over Vietnam and confirmed the French protectorate over both Annam and Tonkin.
The Keelung campaign (August 1884–April 1885) was a controversial military campaign undertaken by French forces in northern Formosa during the Sino-French War.After making a botched attack on Keelung in August 1884, the French landed an expeditionary corps of 2,000 men and captured the port in October 1884.
The Battle of Hòa Mộc (2 March 1885) was the most fiercely fought action of the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). At heavy cost, Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps defeated forces of the Black Flag and Yunnan Armies blocking the way to the besieged French post of Tuyên Quang.
The outbreak of the Sino-French War on 23 August 1884 exposed the post to attack by Tang Jingsong's Yunnan Army and Liu Yongfu’s Black Flags. Supply difficulties delayed the Chinese concentration around Tuyên Quang, but advance elements of the Yunnan Army began to harass the post in October 1884, and Frauger's garrison had to fight off a ...