The siege of Saigon, a two-year siege of the city by the Vietnamese after its capture on 17 February 1859 by a Franco-Spanish flotilla under the command...

The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and North Vietnam-controlled Viet Cong on 30 April 1975. The...

French conquest in the 1860s, when it adopted the name Sài Gòn, francized as Saïgon, although the city was still indicated as 嘉定 on Vietnamese maps written...

was often in severe pain. The expedition left Saigon on June 5, 1866. In addition to his ulcers, Doudart de Lagrée suffered from fever, amoebic dysentery...

approved, and in early February Rigault de Genouilly sailed south for Saigon, leaving command of Tourane to capitaine de vaisseau (captain of the ship) Thoyon...

Ho Chi Minh City People's Radio after the Fall of Saigon. In 1922 the French Compagnie générale de la télégraphie sans fil established the Centre Radioelectrique...

adopted the name Saïgon for the city, a westernized form of the traditional Vietnamese name. The current name was given after the Fall of Saigon in 1975, and...

of 1857 Siege of Jhansi (1858) – Indian Rebellion of 1857 Siege of Đà Nẵng (1858–1860) Siege of Tourane (1858–1860) Siege of Saigon (1859) Siege of Ancona...

victory and conquest of Saigon in 1777. Nguyễn Ánh fled to Hà Tiên in the far south of the country, where he met Pigneau de Behaine, a French priest...

French and Spanish out. In April 1859, in the wake of his Siege of Saigon on 17 February, Rigault de Genouilly returned to Tourane with the bulk of his forces...

feuilleton of Le Temps, and appeared separately as Le Siège de Paris, journal d'un officier de marine (1871). One day, while he was carrying a wagon full...

Praeger. OCLC 575650635. ———, ed. (1988). Paris–Saigon–Hanoi: Les archives de la guerre 1944–1947 [Paris–Saigon–Hanoi: The archives of the 1944–1947 war] (in...

Over the course of its long history, Saigon, Vietnam has had many eras of dominant organized crime groups that at one point or another controlled the illicit...

The Rex Hotel (Vietnamese: Khách Sạn Rex, French: Hôtel Rex de Saïgon) is a famous luxury and business hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. During the...

stockades along the Saigon river, Rigault de Genouilly captured Saigon. The allies were not strong enough to hold the enormous Citadel of Saigon, and on 8 March...

stocks of shells were airlifted into the zone before the siege began. Concern was expressed by de Castries and others that the artillery firepower available...

Blinken rejected the comparison to Saigon, stating on an ABC's This Week interview that "this is manifestly not Saigon. We went into Afghanistan 20 years...

d'Outre-Mer (SOFFO)(1949-1972)" (PDF). entreprises-coloniales.fr. "Ancien Siège Social C.S.M.E. 51 rue d'Anjou". Varangéville Cité du Sel. Sarah Ahssen...

broadcast a statement on Radio Saigon in which he said: "under Article 44 of the constitution, I declare a state of siege throughout the national territory...

"Patrimoine : vente de l'ancien siège de la Banque de l'Indochine". Human Village. June 2020. Documents and clippings about Banque de l'Indochine in the...

the veteran French Bataillon de Corée which had fought with United Nations forces in the Korean War had arrived in Saigon for deployment in the Indochina...

fortifications. Olivier de Puymanel, a former officer of the Dryade who has deserted in Poulo Condor, built in 1790 the Citadel of Saigon and in 1793 the Citadel...

conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict...

The siege of Plei Me (Vietnamese: Bao vây Plei Me; 19–25 October 1965) was the beginning phase of the first major confrontation between soldiers of the...

(Base aérienne 151 Rabat-Salé [fr]) (dissolved in 1961). 29 October 1949: Saïgon May 1951: Oran Aerial Base 141 (Algeria) 13 March 1962: Orange-Caritat Air...

force that could assault and fight Japanese divisions in the vicinity of Saigon, Hanoi, or the Japanese home islands." The CEFEO was largely made up of...

expeditionary corps in China in 1860 allowed the French to break the Siege of Saigon and regain the initiative. The end of the Second Opium War in 1860...

such as Bousbir de Casablanca.[citation needed] French literature has several times mentioned the "Buffalo Park", a BMC in Saigon. In the Indochina...

Second World War, the Communistic Viet Minh started to dig tunnels close to Saigon. After the French army left (they were defeated at Dien Bien Phu) the tunnels...

by asking "How could any effort against Saigon, especially downtown Saigon, be a diversion?" Although Saigon was the focal point of the offensive, the...