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The Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film that is loosely based on "The Six Napoleons". [6] Dressed to Kill – also known as Prelude to Murder (working title) and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Code (in the United Kingdom) – is a 1946 adaptation loosely based on "The Six Napoleons", the busts being replaced with musical boxes.
Peace negotiations between representatives from the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong began in Paris in January 1969. President Richard Nixon , like President Lyndon B. Johnson before him, was convinced that a U.S. withdrawal was necessary, but four years passed before the last American troops departed.
To intervene in Vietnam and also expand the French Empire, on 22 April 1857 Napoleon III created the Committee de la Cochinchine with Anatole, baron Brénier de Renaudière as its chairman, with the purpose of conquering Vietnam and capturing the Vietnamese monarch, using Tự Đức's persecution of Catholics and the undone treaty of 1787 as ...
Chapuis, Oscar (2000), The last emperors of Vietnam: from Tự Đức to Bảo Đại, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-31170-6; Woodside, Alexander (1988). Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674 ...
No independent Vietnamese dynastic title [j] 621 CE 907 CE 271 years [t] Imperial Li 李: Gaozu of Tang: Ai of Tang Wu Zhou [s] Võ Chu 武周: No independent Vietnamese dynastic title [j] 690 CE 705 CE 15 years Imperial Wu 武: Shengshen of Wu Zhou Southern Han [s] Nam Hán 南漢: No independent Vietnamese dynastic title [j] 930 CE 938 CE 8 ...
Map of Vietnam showing the conquest of the south (nam tiến, 1069–1834)Nam tiến (Vietnamese: [nam tǐən]; chữ Hán: 南進; lit. "southward advance" or "march to the south") is a historiographical concept [a] [2] that describes the historic southward expansion of the territory of Vietnamese dynasties' dominions and ethnic Kinh people from the 11th to the 19th centuries.
The Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn or Triều Nguyễn, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883.
The Mekong Delta region (the location of the Six Provinces) was gradually annexed by Vietnam from the Khmer Empire starting in the mid 17th century to the early 19th century, through their Nam tiến territorial expansion campaign. [citation needed] In 1832, Emperor Minh Mạng divided Southern Vietnam into the six provinces Nam Kỳ Lục tỉnh.