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The Airborne Division, alongside the Vietnamese Rangers and the Marine Division were often regarded as among the most effective units, with former airborne advisor General Barry McCaffrey noting that "those of us privileged to serve with them were awestruck by their courage and tactical aggressiveness. The senior officers and non-commissioned ...
The Old Quarter (Vietnamese: Phố cổ Hà Nội) is the name commonly given to the historical civic urban core of Hanoi, Vietnam, located outside the Imperial Citadel of Thăng Long. This quarter used to be the residential, manufacturing and commercial center, where each street was specialized in one specific type of manufacturing or commerce.
Rod Serling, former 11th Airborne Division paratrooper and creator of The Twilight Zone TV series. Lauri Törni, aka Major Larry Thorne, a former 11th Airborne Division soldier who was killed on a 1965 covert MACV-SOG mission in Vietnam. Darwin Gross, (1928–2008) former 11th Airborne Division soldier who was a former leader of Eckankar
September: Vietnam National Museum of History established. Thanh Niên Road constructed between Trúc Bạch Lake and West Lake. 1959 Vietnam Museum of Revolution, [13] Hanoi University of Foreign Studies, and Electricity Water Resources Academy established. Vietnam Military History Museum inaugurated. [13] 1960
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Republic of Vietnam Marine Division rebels Republic of Vietnam Airborne Division rebels Victory. Coup failed. Ngô Đình Diệm: Buddhist crisis (1963) South Vietnam: Revolting Buddhists: Indecisive. Beginning of the 1963 South Vietnamese coup. Second South Vietnamese coup d'état (1963) Army of the Republic of Vietnam loyalists Presidential Guard
The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...
Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [14]