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Tuyên Quang (Vietnamese: [tʷiə̄n kʷāːŋ]) is a province of Vietnam, located in the northeastern part of the country to the northwest of Hanoi, at the centre of ...
The French post at Tuyên Quang was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885). [2]
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.
Black Flag soldier. The French installed a post at Tuyên Quang in June 1884, in the wake of their capture of Hung Hoa and Thai Nguyen. Tuyên Quang, an isolated settlement on the Clear River, was the most westerly French outpost in Tonkin, and was 80 kilometres (50 mi) from the nearest French post at Phu Doan.
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Chiêm Hóa is a rural district of Tuyên Quang province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2020 the district had a population of 134,091. [1] The district covers an area of 1.146,24 km². The district capital lies at Vĩnh Lộc. [1]
Việt Bắc (Northern Vietnam) is a region of Vietnam north of Hanoi that served as the Việt Minh's base of support during the First Indochina War (1946–1954).. Việt Bắc is also called the capital of northernmost Vietnam because this area was the location of the headquarters of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the period before the rising against French domination in 1945, and the ...
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