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The Tonkin campaign was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu 's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.
The Sơn Tây campaign (11 December 1883 to 17 December 1883) was a campaign fought by the French to capture the strategically important city of Sơn Tây in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) from Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and allied contingents of Vietnamese and Chinese troops.
The Pacification of Tonkin (1886–1896) was a slow and ultimately successful military and political campaign undertaken by the French colonial empire in the northern portion of Tonkin (modern-day north Vietnam) to reestablish order in the wake of the Tonkin campaign (1883 1886), to entrench a French protectorate in Tonkin, and to suppress a ...
Jun 29, 2024 · Published June 29, 2024. These stunning autochromes, captured by French photographer Léon Busy, show what Vietnam really looked like during colonial times. In 1887, France created a colonial system in modern-day Vietnam, claiming that it was part of “French Indochina.”. This region also included modern-day Cambodia, and later, modern-day Laos.
Once revered as one of the four essential towns in Tonkin, Son Tay stood as a protective shield for the North Citadel. It also acted as a strategic springboard for the court to safeguard the upper border regions, overlooking the Da River, Red River, and Lo River.
The Sơn Tây campaign was a campaign fought by the French to capture the strategically important city of Sơn Tây in Tonkin from Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and allied contingents of Vietnamese and Chinese troops.
For understandable political reasons, the realm and sovereignty was broken into three "countries": Annam, Tonkin and Cochinchina. The latter was designated a colony, while the first two, together with Cambodia and Laos, were designated protectorates.
