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Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
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1883–86 French conquest of central and northern Vietnam
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Sơn Tây campaign
Part of the Tonkin campaign in Vietnam (1883–1886)
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. The campaign was one of several clashes between the Tonkin…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sơn Tây, Hanoi
Ward in Red River Delta, Vietnam
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