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The French Tonkin commemorative medal commemorates several battles of the Sino-French War. French soldiers in Tonkin, c. 1890. Li Hongzhang and Zeng Jize were key Chinese officials in the negotiations between China, France, and Vietnam. At the time, Li was the viceroy of Zhili and chief minister of Beiyang. Zeng was the Chinese ambassador to ...
Chinese regular soldiers photographed during the Sino-French war Bang Bo, Ky Lua and the Retreat from Lạng Sơn, March 1885. By the middle of March nine separate Chinese military commands were massed close up to the Tonkinese border around the enormous entrenched camps of Yen Cua Ai and Bang Bo. There were six main Chinese concentrations.
In France, the defence of Tuyên Quang became the defining image of the Sino-French War. Dominé's day-by-day diary of the siege was published in full in the Journal officiel, and an order of the day issued by Brière de l'Isle to the men of the Tuyên Quang garrison on 4 March 1885 enjoyed instant celebrity:
A closeup photo of a Tonkinese rifleman, 1914 Former Yellow Flag soldiers serving under French command, summer 1884. Encouraged by the performance of his Tonkinese auxiliaries in the campaigns of March and April 1884, Millot decided to formalise their status by creating two regiments of Tonkinese tirailleurs, each of 3,000 men, organised into three battalions of four 250-man companies and led ...
The Sino-French War (1884–1885) — military campaign furthering French colonisation in Asia and later founding of French Indochina (1887–1954). Centered in Tonkin , it involved Vietnam , the French Third Republic , and Qing dynasty China.
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.
The Sino-French War ended with the Chinese military pushed out of Tonkin, and the resulting peace treaty between France and China, signed at Tientsin on 9 June 1885, forced China to abandon its historic claim to suzerainty over Vietnam and confirmed the French protectorate over both Annam and Tonkin.
The Battle of Núi Bop (3–4 January 1885) was a French victory during the Sino-French War.The battle was fought to clear Chinese forces away from the French forward base at Chu, and was an essential preliminary to the Lạng Sơn Campaign in February 1885.