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  2. French conquest of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    To intervene in Vietnam and also expand the French Empire, on 22 April 1857 Napoleon III created the Committee de la Cochinchine with Anatole, baron Brénier de Renaudière as its chairman, with the purpose of conquering Vietnam and capturing the Vietnamese monarch, using Tự Đức's persecution of Catholics and the undone treaty of 1787 as ...

  3. France–Vietnam relations - Wikipedia

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    As the prohibition proved largely ineffective, and missionaries continued their activities in Vietnam, especially under the protection of the governor of Cochinchina Lê Văn Duyệt, a total ban on Roman Catholicism as well as French and Vietnamese priests was enacted following their support of the Lê Văn Khôi revolt (1833–1835), leading ...

  4. List of wars involving France - Wikipedia

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    Russian Empire (1808–09) Supported by: French Empire [12] United Kingdom. Co-belligerent: Sweden (1809, 1813–1814) British victory Treaty of Kiel; Dissolution of Denmark–Norway; Norway adopts a new Constitution; Norwegian War of Independence; Finnish War (1808–1809) Location: Finland and Sweden. Russian Empire. Co-belligerent: Denmark ...

  5. French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    The Selling of the Empire: British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890–1940 (1985) Chafer, Tony, and Amanda Sackur. Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002) Confer, Vincent (1964). "French Colonial Ideas before 1789". French Historical Studies. 3 (3): 338– 359. doi:10.2307/285947. JSTOR

  6. East Francia - Wikipedia

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    East Francia (Latin: Francia orientalis) or the Kingdom of the East Franks (Regnum Francorum orientalium) was a successor state of Charlemagne's empire ruled by the Carolingian dynasty until 911. It was created through the Treaty of Verdun (843) which divided the former empire into three kingdoms.

  7. French Indochina - Wikipedia

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    French–Vietnamese relations started during the early 17th century with the arrival of the Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes.Around this time, Vietnam had only just begun its "Southward"—"Nam Tiến", the occupation of the Mekong Delta, a territory being part of the Khmer Empire and to a lesser extent, the kingdom of Champa which they had defeated in 1471.

  8. History of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam's ethnic mosaic results from the peopling process in which various peoples came and settled the territory, leading to the modern state of Vietnam by many stages, often separated by thousands of years over a duration of tens of thousands of years. Vietnam's entire history, thus, is an embroidery of polyethnicity. [14]

  9. Nguyễn dynasty - Wikipedia

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    Westerners in the past often called the kingdom Annam [20] [21] or the Annamite Empire. [22] However, in Vietnamese historiography, modern historians often refer to this period in Vietnamese history as Nguyễn Vietnam, [23] or simply Vietnam to distinguish with the pre-19th century Đại Việt kingdom. [24]