The Pescadores campaign which took place in late March, 1885, was one of the last campaigns of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). It was fought...
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Pescadores campaign may refer to: Pescadores campaign (1885), French occupation of the islands, part of the Sino-French War Pescadores campaign (1895)...
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from the Keelung garrison to capture the Pescadores Islands in late March. Strategically, the Pescadores campaign was an important victory, which would have...
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Penghu (redirect from The Pescadores)
Pehoe from the Minnan name Phêⁿ-ô·. The name "Pescadores" comes from the Portuguese name Ilhas dos Pescadores ("Fishermen Islands"). The European Portuguese...
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Tonkin Expedition commemorative medal (redirect from Médaille commémorative de l'expédition du Tonkin (1885))
(November 1884–March 1885) and the Pescadores Campaign (March 1885). The medal ribbon, envisaged in the law of 6 September 1885 as half green and half...
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Sino-French War (redirect from Sino-French War (1883-1885))
from the Keelung garrison to capture the Pescadores Islands in late March. Strategically, the Pescadores campaign was an important victory, which would have...
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The Shimonoseki campaign (Japanese: 下関戦争/馬関戦争, Hepburn: Shimonoseki Sensō/Bakan Sensō, "Shimonoseki War") was a series of military engagements in 1863...
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Taiwanese Resistance to the Japanese Invasion (1895) (section Japanese occupation of the Pescadores)
Qing government agreed to an indemnity of 500,000 Kuping taels. The Pescadores Campaign of March 23–26, 1895 marked the last military operation of the First...
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January 1885 the French concentrated 7,200 soldiers and 4,500 coolies at Chu, in preparation for a major campaign to take Lạng Sơn. The Kép campaign was an...
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Liu Yongfu (category People of the Tonkin campaign)
the 1870s and early 1880s. During the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885), he established a close friendship with the Chinese statesman and general...
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Vietnam. The battle was fought as a pendant to the Lạng Sơn Campaign (3 to 13 February 1885), in which the French captured the Guangxi Army's base at Lạng...
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Black Flag Army (category Tonkin campaign)
Yongfu, for using black command flags. The army was officially disbanded in 1885 as a result of the Treaty of Tientsin between France and China. However,...
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21 June 1885 and the Pescadores Islands on 22 July 1885. Ratifications of the Treaty of Tianjin were exchanged at Beijing on 28 November 1885. Article...
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Sơn campaign (3 to 13 February 1885) was a major French offensive in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). The...
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Battle of Shipu (14 February 1885), the so-called Battle of Zhenhai (1 March 1885), the Pescadores Campaign (March 1885) and the 'rice blockade' of the...
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The Dutch East Indies campaign of 1941–1942 was the conquest of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia) by forces of the Empire of Japan in the early...
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Tang Jingsong (category People of the Tonkin campaign)
He commanded the Yunnan Army in the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885), and made an important contribution to Qing dynasty China's military effort...
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participated in the subsequent blockade of Formosa and the Pescadores campaign. After the war ended in 1885, D'Estaing was recalled to France, and in the early...
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board Bayard in the harbor of Makung, in the Pescadores Islands, on 11 June 1885. Bayard left the Pescadores on 23 June to return Courbet's body to France;...
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Tonkin Affair (category Conflicts in 1885)
triggered on 28 March 1885 by the controversial Retreat from Lạng Sơn. The retreat, which threw away the gains of the February Lạng Sơn Campaign, was ordered by...
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Amédée Courbet (category People of the Tonkin campaign)
June 1827 – 11 June 1885) was a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) and the Sino-French...
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Guangdong Fleet (section Acquisitions, 1885–94)
fleet played virtually no part in the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885), but several of its ships saw action in the Sino-Japanese War (1894–5)....
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Fujian Fleet (section Fleet acquisitions after 1885)
served with the Fujian Fleet for less than a year. She ran aground off the Pescadores Islands on 30 March 1886 in thick fog, and broke up several days later...
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Retreat from Lạng Sơn (category Conflicts in 1885)
middle of March 1885 the military situation in Tonkin had reached a temporary stalemate. In February 1885, in the Lạng Sơn Campaign, the French had captured...
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Battle of Shipu (category 1885 in China)
during the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). The battle took place on the night of 14 February 1885 in Shipu Bay (石浦灣), near Ningbo, China. The...
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1885. They differed from the earlier models in having two masts, each with a Hotchkiss station. In February 1885, on the eve of the Lang Son Campaign...
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Battle of Phu Lam Tao (category Conflicts in 1885)
of Phu Lam Tao (23 March 1885) was a politically significant engagement during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885), in which a French Zouave...
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Battle of Hòa Mộc (category Conflicts in 1885)
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 west...
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Battle of Zhenhai (category Conflicts in 1885)
Far East Squadron had been stationed since the end of the Pescadores Campaign in late March 1885. On 13 June Admiral Adrien-Barthélémy-Louis Rieunier, then...
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The Filips van Zuylen's campaign agaisnt Luanda took place in 1624, it was an episode of the Dutch-Portuguese War that resulted in a heavy defeat for the...
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