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
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Battle of Hanoi (1946)
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On December 19, 1946, Viet Minh soldiers detonated explosives in Hanoi, and the ensuing battle, known as the Battle of Hanoi marked the opening salvo of the First Indochina War.
Haiphong incident
…the French. The incident, also known as the Shelling of Haiphong, is thought of 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…
Viet Minh soldier Nguyen Van Thieng holding a lunge mine at Hàng Đậu Street in December 1946
Viet Minh artillery in Hanoi
Document "The word of the National Assembly of War Resistance" handwritten by Hồ Chí Minh on December 19, 1946.
The youngest in the winter of 1946.