ordered Brière de l'Isle to 'capture Lạng Sơn as soon as possible'. Long-range planning for a campaign against Lạng Sơn had been underway for several months...

106.75778°E / 21.84778; 106.75778 Lạng Sơn (listen) is a city in far Northern Vietnam, and the capital of Lạng Sơn Province. It is accessible by road...

primarily at the city of Lạng Sơn, a few kilometres from the Sino-Vietnamese border. After capturing the northern heights above Lạng Sơn, the Chinese surrounded...

encircle Lạng Sơn and cut his supply line. Disregarding the appalled protests of some of his officers, he ordered the 2nd Brigade to abandon Lạng Sơn on the...

a temporary stalemate. In February 1885, in the Lạng Sơn Campaign, the French had captured Lạng Sơn and driven China's Guangxi Army out of Tonkin. In...

valley to the west of Lạng Sơn. The occupation of Lạng Sơn on 13 February gave the French control of the Mandarin Road from Lạng Sơn all the way back to...

Battle of Lạng Sơn may refer to: Lạng Sơn Campaign in 1885, a French offensive during the Sino-French War Battle of Lạng Sơn in September 1940, fought...

by the controversial Retreat from Lạng Sơn. The retreat, which threw away the gains of the February Lạng Sơn Campaign, was ordered by Lieutenant-Colonel...

Brigade, was also at Lạng Sơn. The battery had lagged behind during the Lạng Sơn Campaign, and Giovanninelli had left it at Lạng Sơn when he set out with...

only a few days at Lạng Sơn to resupply his troops, Brière de l'Isle marched personally with Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade from Lạng Sơn back to Hanoi, and...

Lạng Sơn Campaign, in which the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps drove the Chinese from their entrenched camps at Dong Song and Bac Vie and captured Lạng Sơn...

The Kép campaign was an essential preliminary to the February 1885 Lạng Sơn campaign, in which the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps captured Lạng Sơn and drove...

preliminary to the Lạng Sơn Campaign in February 1885. In late September 1884, large detachments of the Guangxi Army advanced from Lạng Sơn and probed into...

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...

French post of Tuyên Quang. The French capture of Lạng Sơn in February 1885 in the Lạng Sơn Campaign allowed substantial French forces to be diverted further...

at Lạng Sơn on 14 March. Two more junior commanders, Chen Degui (陳得貴) and Dang Minxuan (黨敏宣), were beheaded in front of their troops at Lạng Sơn on 26...

Amédée Courbet in the Sơn Tây Campaign. Despite fighting with fanatical courage in the engagements at Phù Sa on 14 December and Sơn Tây on 16 December,...

which went up Upper Tonkin and in February 1885 conquered the town of Lạng Sơn , in the north of present-day Vietnam. The first brigade, led by Giovanninelli...

best known for his role in the Retreat from Lạng Sơn in the Sino-French War. Paul-Gustave Herbinger was the son of Paul Herbinger who was a battalion commander...

to take part in the Sơn Tây Campaign (December 1883). Although Liu Yongfu and his Vietnamese and Chinese allies failed to hold Sơn Tây against the French...

battle of Bang Bo (24 March 1885) and the subsequent French retreat from Lạng Sơn, Courbet presented the navy ministry with an elegant, almost bloodless...

to commemorate the Lạng Sơn Campaign was taken because its gains were wiped out in March 1885 by the notorious Retreat from Lạng Sơn. Nevertheless, the...

by the controversial Retreat from Lạng Sơn. The retreat, which threw away the gains of the February Lạng Sơn Campaign, was ordered by Lieutenant-Colonel...

Battle of Cam Duong 1979 – 1979 Battle of Cao Bằng 1979 – 1979 Battle of Lạng Sơn 1981 – Battle of Fakashan 1984 – Battle of Laoshan 1986 – Operation Blue...

defeating General de Négrier's 2nd Brigade at Bang Bo and reoccupying Lạng Sơn, this success was counterbalanced by the simultaneous French capture of...

notorious "Lạng Sơn telegram" of 28 March 1885, despatched in the wake of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Gustave Herbinger's Retreat from Lạng Sơn, which toppled...

Amédée Courbet in the Sơn Tây Campaign. Despite fighting with fanatical courage in the engagements at Phù Sa on 14 December and Sơn Tây on 16 December,...

posts overnight. The French position at the railhead at Lạng Sơn during the Battle of Lạng Sơn was surrounded by Japanese armour and forced to surrender...

and China in Tonkin. On 23 June 1884, French troops advancing to occupy Lạng Sơn, in accordance with the terms of this agreement, clashed near the small...

therefore William Lang was appointed as Chief Inspector of the Beiyang navy in 1882 and re-appointed for another term in 1885 however Lang resigned following...