1888 in Southeast Asia - 1888 in Vietnam, Pacification of Tonkin, Can Vuong (Paperback)

Chapters: 1888 in Vietnam, Pacification of Tonkin, Can Vuong. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 21. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Pacification of Tonkin (188696) was a slow, frustrating but ultimately successful military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam (Tonkin) to re-establish order in the wake of the Sino-French War (August 1884April 1885), to entrench a French protectorate in Tonkin, and to suppress Vietnamese opposition to French rule. General Edouard Ferdinand Jamont (18311918), the first commander of the Tonkin occupation divisionFollowing their colonisation of Cochinchina in the 1860s, the French attempted to extend their influence into Tonkin. A first, abortive attempt to intervene in Tonkin was made by Francis Garnier in 1873. Nine years later, in April 1882, Henri Riviere seized the citadel of Hanoi, inaugurating the second French intervention. Although Riviere's career ended in disaster a year later, with his defeat and death at the hands of the Black Flag Army at the Battle of Paper Bridge (19 May 1883), Jules Ferry's expansionist government in France sent strong reinforcements to Tonkin to avenge this defeat. Although it would take many years before Tonkin was truly pacified, the second French attempt to subdue Tonkin was ultimately successful. In August 1883, in the wake of Admiral Amedee Courbet's victory at the Battle of Thuan An, the Vietnamese court at Hue was forced to recognise a French protectorate over both Annam and Tonkin. Efforts by the French to entrench their protectorate in Tonkin were complicated by the outbreak of the Sino-French War in August 1884, which tied down large French forces around Hung Hoa and Lang Son, and later by the Can Vuong uprising in southern Vietnam in July 1885, which required the diversio...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2010302