Võ Nguyên Giáp
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Võ Nguyên Giáp was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist military forces to victory in the decades-long
Giáp in c. 1950s
Võ Nguyên Giáp and Ho Chi Minh in 1945
Võ Nguyên Giáp attending the ceremony establishing two naval squadrons – the first naval units of the Vietnamese People's Navy, 1954.
D67 in Hanoi Citadel was the military headquarters of General Giáp during the war
Ho Chi Minh
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Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served
Võ Nguyên Giáp
…Vietnam (1955–63). Years earlier the same school had educated another boy, Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also the son of an official. In 1943 Cung adopted the name Ho Chi Minh. At age 14, Giáp became a messenger for the Haiphong Power Company. He was expelled from the school after two years for taking part in protests, and…
Portrait, c. 1946
Commemorative plaque in Haymarket in London
1920 security report by the French Indochinese government on Nguyễn Tất Thành listing his aliases, places of residence, his father's occupation, as well as other information.
Hồ Chí Minh, 1921, using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc, attending a Communist congress in Marseille, France.