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The Tonkin campaign was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.
The French and British both had strong interests in controlling parts of Indochina. Twice in the 1890s, they were on the verge of war over two different routes leading to Yunnan. [citation needed] But several difficulties discouraged them from war. The geography of the land made troop movements difficult, making warfare more costly and less ...
Sergeant Brock and Goldie, ex-American Korean War veterans serving as French Foreign Legion mercenaries in the First Indochina War, are ordered to lead a squad to blow up an arms depot near the Chinese border. 1957 Desert Hell: Charles Marquis Warren: Brian Keith, Barbara Hale, and Richard Denning: 1958 Desert Legion: Joseph Pevney
An American Intelligence Agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal reminiscent of Martin Bormann [2] believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in French Indochina. He joins forces with a French Intelligence agent investigating supplies of weapons to the Việt Minh from the Eastern Bloc.
The tirailleurs saw active service in Indochina, the Boxer Rebellion in China, the Allied intervention in Siberia between 1918–19, [11] Syria (1920–21) [12] and Morocco (1925–26). [ 13 ] On 10 February 1930 fifty tirailleurs rose in support of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng during the Yen Bai mutiny , which was quickly suppressed by ...
The French conquest of Vietnam 1 (1858–1885) was a series of military expeditions that pitted the Second French Empire, later the French Third Republic, against the Vietnamese empire of Đại Nam in the mid-late 19th century.
French marine infantryman in Tonkin, 1883. French interest in northern Vietnam dated from the 1860s, when France annexed several southern provinces of Vietnam to become the colony of Cochinchina, laying the foundations for its later colonial empire in Indochina.