The Tonkin Flotilla (French: flottille de Tonkin) of 1883 was a flotilla of French Imperial gunboats and despatch vessels used to enforce French Colonial...

French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April...

The Sino-French War, also known as the Tonkin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 to April 1885 between the French Third Republic and Qing...

French martyrs of the conquest of Tonkin. In 1884, during the Sino-French War, two gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla were named after the two men. During...

Sino-French War, Lieutenant-Colonel Duchesne distinguished himself both in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and Formosa (now Taiwan). On 12 March 1884, during the...

Tonkin. Command of this new Tonkin Coasts naval division (division navale des côtes du Tonkin) was given to Admiral Amédée Courbet. A Tonkin Flotilla...

The Tonkin Affair, (French: L'Affaire du Tonkin) named after the French protectorate of Tonkin, of March 1885 was a major French political crisis that...

their fights against the invading French forces, who were then moving into Tonkin (northern Vietnam). The Black Flag Army is so named because of the preference...

(1861–1865) Shinmiyangyo in Korea (1871) Ganghwa Island incident (1875) Tonkin Flotilla (1883) German East Africa (1885) Samoan crisis (1887-1889) Môle Saint-Nicolas...

writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi...

made an important contribution to Qing dynasty China's military effort in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) by persuading the Black Flag leader Liu Yongfu to serve...

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...

composite sloop Chengqing (澄慶), and sailed towards Formosa. The Chinese flotilla was under the command of Admiral Wu Ankang (吳安康). The Nanyang ships were...

Destelan, P., Annam et Tonkin: Notes de voyage d'un marin (Paris, 1892) Duboc, E., Trente cinq mois de campagne en Chine, au Tonkin (Paris, 1899) Ferrero...

end several months of undeclared hostilities between France and China in Tonkin. On 23 June 1884, French troops advancing to occupy Lạng Sơn, in accordance...

Beiyang Fleet Fujian Fleet Guangdong Fleet Nanyang Fleet Black Flag Army Far East Squadron Tonkin Expeditionary Corps Tonkin Flotilla Tonkinese Rifles...

OL 5225244M. Huard, Charles-Lucien (1887). La Guerre de Tonkin. La Guerre illustrée. Chine, Tonkin, Annam (in French). Paris: L. Boulanger. Loir, Maurice...

March 1885 on the Tonkin-Guangxi border, saw the defeat of 1,500 soldiers of General François de Négrier's 2nd Brigade of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps...

Republic, winning fame in Algeria in the Sud-Oranais campaign (1881) and in Tonkin during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). Born in Belfort,...

admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) and the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). Courbet...

an important confrontation between the French and the Chinese armies in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885)...

Tuyên Quang with only a little over 2,400 men. Five gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla (Éclair, Henri Rivière, Berthe de Villers, Moulun and Trombe) carried...

had been built on all the neighbouring ridges. The arrival of the French flotilla was the signal for feverish activity ashore, as the Chinese worked throughout...

a French protectorate in Tonkin. However, the hopes aroused by this agreement, which seemed to have brought France's Tonkin campaign to a victorious end...

frigate Yuyuen (馭遠) and the composite sloop Chengqing (澄慶). The Chinese flotilla, under the command of Admiral Wu Ankang (吳安康), scattered as the French...

Eyes (London, 1931) Duboc, E., Trente cinq mois de campagne en Chine, au Tonkin (Paris, 1899) Loir, M., L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet (Paris, 1886) Lung...

retraite de Lang-Son) was a controversial French strategic withdrawal in Tonkin at the end of March 1885 during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April...

announcing their presence by ambushing two French gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla, Hache and Massue, on 2 October. Although French casualties during...

column was transported up the Red River by six French gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla (Pluvier, Trombe, Éclair, Hache, Mousqueton and Yatagan) and several...

Rivière captured the citadel of Nam Định, the second-largest city in Tonkin, with a flotilla of gunboats and a battalion of marine infantry. Rivière's seizure...