The siege of Songping or the siege of Hanoi was the pivotal part of Nanzhao's great offensive in 863. Nanzhao was in alliance with local tribal rebels...

Songping (Chinese: 宋平; pinyin: Sòngpíng; Wade–Giles: Sung-p‘ing), or Tống Bình in Vietnamese, was a former imperial Chinese and Vietnamese settlement...

dragon defiant: a short history of Vietnam. Praeger. Fall, Bernard B. (1967). Hell in a very small place: the siege of Dien Bien Phu. Lippincott. Kedward...

Citadel of Thăng Long (Vietnamese: Hoàng thành Thăng Long; chữ Hán: 皇城昇龍) is a complex of historic buildings associated with the history of Vietnam located...

Duan Qiuqian launched the Siege of Songping. The city fell in late January as the Chinese army withdrew north. The Protectorate of Annan was abolished. The...

This is a list of wars involving the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and its predecessor states. During this period, there existed 3 dynasties and 3 lordships:...

problems of the people of the district of Mỹ Đức. National Assembly members Lê Thanh Vân of the city of Hải Phòng and Dương Trung Quốc of the province of Đồng...

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against the Chinese. The Yunnanese and their local allies launched the Siege of Songping in early 863, defeating the Chinese, and captured the capital in three...

Annan had been lost to Đỗ. On 17 January 861, Songping fell and Li Hu fled to Yongzhou. Li Hu retook Songping on 21 July but Nanzhao's forces moved around...

jiedushi Gao Pian in 866. It was the seat of Songping County during the Tang dynasty, and was capital of the Tĩnh Hải quân. In 1010, Lý Công Uẩn decided...

Hà Tây (listen) was a former province of Vietnam, in the Red River Delta, now part of Hanoi. The province was first created in 1967 and was dissolved...

Campaign May 23 – October 19, 1948 — Siege of Changchun May 29 – July 18, 1948 — Yanzhou Campaign June 17–19, 1948 — Battle of Shangcai September 12 – November...

Tây prisoner-of-war camp, which was located 23 miles (37 km) west of Hanoi, North Vietnam. The objective of the operation was the recovery of 61 American...

Lo-ch'eng; lit. "Enveloping Wall"), although this name was later transferred to Songping after the Sui conquest in 602 and to a third site which became present-day...

district, roughly 17 kilometers north of present-day Hanoi, in the upper plain north of the Red River. Various relics of the Bronze Age Phùng Nguyên culture...

the Transfer of the Capital (chữ Hán: 遷都詔, chữ Nôm: 詔移都, Vietnamese: Thiên đô chiếu, Chiếu dời đô) is an edict written at the behest of emperor Lý Thái...

over Annan out of his hand. In December 860, Songping fell to the rebels and Hu fled to Yongzhou. In summer 861, Li Hu retook Songping but Nanzhao forces...

of Van Xuan 621 — Long Biên and Songping briefly elevated to prefectural status as Longzhou and Songzhou 722 — Songping falls to Mai Thúc Loan late 8th...

(37 km) west of Hanoi in the late 1960s through late 1970 and again in 1975. About 65 US prisoners of war were held there during the middle of the Vietnam...

group of Vietnamese indigenous tirailleurs attempted to poison the entire French colonial army's garrison in the Citadel of Hanoi. The aim of the plot...

instead of gold". Prior to the establishment of the French protectorate of Tonkin, the city of Hanoi was a collection of 36 streets, each of these streets...

Hanoi at the end of 1881 to investigate Vietnamese complaints against the activities of French merchants. In defiance of the instructions of his superiors...

the new Hanoi Railway Station) in Trấn Quý Cáp Street. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O - Page 433 Tony Jaques - 2007 "Carrying 250 reinforcements...

The Battle of Hanoi was fought on 20 November 1873 between France and Đại Nam. A French expeditionary force composed of 140 sailors, 30 marines and 8 officers...

The Battle of Cầu Giấy or Paper Bridge, fought on 19 May 1883, was one of the numerous clashes during the Tonkin Campaign (1883–86) between the French...

The Battle of Chương Dương (1285) was fought between joint Cham–Vietnamese forces led by Prince Trần Quốc Tuấn and Duke Trần Quang Khải against the Mongol-led...

Paul Doumer and the opening of the Paul Doumer (now Long Biên) Bridge. The exhibition was the idea of Paul Doumer. The site of the fair was the racecourse...

over Annan out of his hand. In December 860, Songping fell to the rebels and Hu fled to Yongzhou. In summer 861, Li Hu retook Songping but Nanzhao forces...

Đinh Kiến, one of Lý's compatriots, led the people against Yanyou and besieged him in Songping. In the summer, the rebels took Songping and put Yanyou...