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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 ...
Lục súc tranh công (六畜爭功 "The Quarrel of the Six Beasts") is a classic narrative poem written in late Eighteenth Century Vietnam. Although the title is given in classical chữ Hán the poem itself is written in the vernacular Vietnamese language in Vietnamese chữ Nôm and lục bát verse. [1]
The Gia huấn ca (chữ Hán: 家訓歌 The Family Training Ode) is a 976-line Vietnamese text traditionally ascribed to the Vietnamese Confucian scholar Nguyễn Trãi (阮廌, 1380–1442). [1] Written in song thất lục bát verse.
He believed that some of the VC had remained behind in underground hiding places. 2/4th Marines and 3/3rd Marines returned to Chu Lai on the 20th and 1st Battalion, 7th Marines moved into the objective area and joined 3/7th Marines and units from the ARVN 2nd Division for the search. The Marines killed 54 more VC in the Van Tuong complex before ...
Lê Lợi (Vietnamese: [le lə̂ːjˀ], chữ Hán: 黎利; 10 September 1385 – 5 October 1433), also known by his temple name as Lê Thái Tổ (黎太祖) and by his pre-imperial title Bình Định vương (平定王; "Prince of Pacification"), was a Vietnamese rebel leader who founded the Later Lê dynasty and became the first king [a] of the restored kingdom of Đại Việt after the ...
The Trinh forces extended their attack to capture Huế and then cross the Hải Vân pass aiming for Tây Sơn positions in northern Quảng Nam. [92] Under pressure from the advancing Trinh in the north and the Nguyen in the south, the Tây Sơn leader, Nguyễn Nhạc pragmatically surrendered to the Trinh in May 1775 for suing peace. [93]
[2]: 164 On 14 August the 7th Marine Regiment arrived at Chu Lai. [2]: 65 On 18 August the Marines launched Operation Starlite to secure the area around Chu Lai, the operation lasted until 24 August and resulted in 45 Marines and 614 Viet Cong killed. [2]: 80 On 2 September Marine Aircraft Group 36 (MAG-36) was established at Kỳ Hà, [2]: 148 ...
Nguyễn Trãi (阮廌), pen name Ức Trai (抑齋); (1380–1442) was an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, [1] a skilled politician and a master strategist. He was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or mythical deeds in his designated capacity as a principal advisor of Lê Lợi , who fought ...