French Cochinchina
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French Cochinchina was a colony of French Indochina from 1862 to 1949, encompassing the Mekong Delta and adjacent provinces in what is now the southern region of Vietnam, with its administrative capit
Capture of Saigon by France
The six provinces of Lower Cochinchina, 1863.
Celebrations of the inauguration of Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina, June 1946, Saigon. A man waves the French tricolour and the three-striped Cochinchina flag.
Cochinchina in 1829 under Nguyễn Dynasty
State of Vietnam
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The State of Vietnam was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1949 until 1955, initially as an associated state in the French Union and later as a fully independent state. The state claimed aut
French Cochinchina
…Hanoi by the Viet Minh, in June 1949 Cochinchina was united with the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin under their former de jure emperor Bảo Đại as the State of Vietnam within the French Union. In 1858, under the pretext of protecting the work of French Catholic missionaries, which the imperial Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty…
A crowd gathers in Hanoi for the presentation of a new government
Commissioning ceremony in Hanoi, 1952
Army recruitment poster against communism.
Reenactment of the presentation of the sacred sword to Lê Lợi. Parade in Hanoi 1952, commemorating the Élysée Accords.