Haiphong incident
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The Haiphong Incident or the Haiphong Massacre occurred on November 23, 1946, when the French cruiser Suffren and several avisos bombarded the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong, killing between 2,00
The Dumont d'Urville in Dutch East Indies, 1930-1936
First Indochina War
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The First Indochina War, known alternatively internationally as the French Indochina War or the Vietnamese War of Independence, was fought in French Indochina between France and the Communist-led Viet
Haiphong incident
…as the first armed clash in a series of events that would lead to the Battle of Hanoi on December 19, 1946, and with it the official outbreak of the First Indochina War. After World War II, the future of the Vietnamese territory was in question. After being under years of French colonial rule followed by Japanese rule…
Clockwise After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, supporting Laotian troops fall back across the Mekong River into Laos French Marine commandos wade ashore off the Annam coast in July 1950 M24 Chaffee American light tank used by the French in Vietnam Geneva Conference on 21 July 1954 A Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat from Escadrille 1F prepares to land on French aircraft carrier Arromanches operating in the Gulf of Tonkin
Indochine physique, 1930
June 1945 public ceremony in commemoration of the Yên Bái mutiny
Võ Nguyên Giáp and Ho Chi Minh (1945)