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Võ Thị Sáu (1933 – 23 January 1952) was a Vietnamese schoolgirl who fought as a guerrilla against the French occupiers of Vietnam, then part of French Indochina.She was captured, tried, convicted, and executed by the French colonialists in 1952, becoming the first woman to be executed at Côn Sơn Prison.
Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...
Beatrix of Sicily or Beatrice di Sicilia (Palermo, 1260 – Marquisate of Saluzzo, 1307) was a Sicilian princess. In 1296 she became Marchioness consort of Saluzzo. Beatrix was the daughter of Manfred of Sicily and his wife Helena Angelina Doukaina. [1]
But in 1876 Tu Duc sent a delegation to Beijing, reassessing Vietnam's tributary status for the Chinese Empire. Another Vietnamese mission in 1880 went on to pay homage to the Qing court. On 10 November 1880, the Chinese ambassador in Paris announced that Dai Nam was still a vassal of China and rejected the Franco-Vietnamese treaty of 1874.
Bust of general Võ Duy Dương in Đồng Tháp Province Museum. Võ Duy Dương (武維楊; 1827–1866), also Thiên Hộ Dương (千戶楊) was a Vietnamese warlord who, after the submission of the Vietnamese government to the French in 1862, continued to fight against the French (1862-1866) in the wetlands of Đồng Tháp Mười, where he died of disease.
Võ Thị Thắng (10 December 1945 – 22 August 2014) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and stateswoman. She was a member of the Long An delegation to the National Assembly of Vietnam during its fourth, fifth, and sixth sessions (1975 to 1981).
Vũ Văn Dũng. Vũ Văn Dũng (武 文 勇, died 1802), or Võ Văn Dũng, was a general of Tây Sơn dynasty, Vietnam.He and Võ Ðình Tú, Trần Quang Diệu, Nguyễn Văn Tuyết (Commander Tuyết), Lê Văn Hưng, Lý Văn Bưu, Nguyễn Văn Lộc (Commander Lộc) were known as "Seven Tiger Generals of Tây Sơn dynasty" (Vietnamese: Tây Sơn thất hổ tướng, 西山 七 虎將).
Béatrix is an 1839 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.. It first appeared in the periodical Le Siècle in August 1839, and appeared in volume form the same year.