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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.
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Henri Laurent Rivière (1827–1883) was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and Dai Nam (as Vietnam was known then ...
Pierre is a pilot who was shot down in the French Indochina War, and his crashing plane may have killed a young Vietnamese girl.Now physically recovered, he lives in an apartment in the Ville-d'Avray suburb of Paris with Madeleine, who was one of his nurses during his initial recuperation, but struggles to return Madeleine's romantic feelings for him, as he has been left childlike and suffers ...
Indochine (French pronunciation: [ɛ̃dɔʃin]) is a 1992 French period drama film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s. It is the story of Éliane Devries, a French plantation owner, and of her adopted Vietnamese daughter, Camille, set against the backdrop of the rising Vietnamese nationalist movement.
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
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 ...
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.