Louis Alexandre Esprit Gaston Brière de l'Isle (24 June 1827 – 19 June 1896) was a French Army general who achieved distinction firstly as Governor of...
20 KB (2,655 words) - 06:10, 26 September 2024
force into two brigades. The 1st Brigade was commanded by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal, and...
19 KB (2,715 words) - 18:12, 13 June 2024
Tonkin Expeditionary Corps (section General Louis-Alexandre-Esprit-Gaston Brière de l'Isle (1827–96))
Tuyên Quang, on 3 March 1885, was the high point of Brière de l'Isle's career. Brière de l'Isle's record of solid professional achievement was marred...
40 KB (5,055 words) - 02:51, 22 March 2024
1885). The Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, under the command of General Louis Brière de l'Isle, defeated the Chinese Guangxi Army and captured the strategically...
24 KB (3,243 words) - 17:54, 13 June 2024
General Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–96) General François de Négrier (1842–1913) The base for the Hưng Hóa campaign was Sơn Tây. General Louis Brière de l'Isle's...
13 KB (1,638 words) - 17:55, 13 June 2024
General Louis Brière de l'Isle returned to Hanoi with Lieutenant-Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade to relieve the Siege of Tuyên Quang, leaving de Négrier...
14 KB (1,947 words) - 05:52, 28 June 2024
General Louis Brière de l'Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the south to cut Liu's line of retreat. On the evening of 11 April, seeing Brière de l'Isle's...
23 KB (3,031 words) - 12:03, 27 July 2024
week after General François de Négrier's defeat at the Battle of Bang Bo (24 March 1885). General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the commander-in-chief of French...
13 KB (1,915 words) - 02:57, 8 October 2024
and head curator Henri Brière (1873–1957), French politician Léo Brière, French mentalist and illusionist Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–1896), French Army...
2 KB (286 words) - 09:34, 19 March 2024
Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes (category Burials at the Cemetery of Saint-Louis, Versailles)
for Brière de l'Isle's dismissal, and his attack on Samory Touré's forces in 1883 began a conflict which only ended in 1893. When Brière de l'Isle appointed...
17 KB (1,929 words) - 12:29, 29 August 2024
retreat, and sent General Brière de l'Isle with the rest of the 1st Brigade in pursuit of Prince Hoang. In early May Brière de l'Isle cornered Prince Hoang...
38 KB (5,418 words) - 07:26, 17 August 2024
Sebastian Kneipp, German priest and naturopath (b. 1821) June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (b. 1827) July 1 – Ropata Wahawaha, New Zealand...
38 KB (4,107 words) - 01:29, 17 October 2024
persecution of Catholics. In France, the new revolution overthrew Louis Philippe in 1848. Louis Napoleon became the President, then the Emperor of France. To...
32 KB (3,729 words) - 03:51, 3 September 2024
General Louis Brière de l'Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the west to cut Liu's line of retreat. On the evening of 11 April, seeing Brière de l'Isle's...
25 KB (3,774 words) - 07:23, 12 February 2024
force into two brigades. The 1st Brigade was commanded by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal, and...
80 KB (10,775 words) - 00:34, 17 October 2024
Retreat from Lạng Sơn (redirect from Retraite de Lang-Son)
Guangxi Army out of Tonkin. In the second half of February General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, returned...
24 KB (3,317 words) - 00:49, 11 October 2024
badly wrong. In the wake of the relief of Tuyên Quang, General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, drew up...
8 KB (1,038 words) - 17:57, 13 June 2024
Following his capture of Lạng Sơn on 13 February 1885, General Louis Brière de l'Isle personally led Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade to the relief...
18 KB (2,605 words) - 17:57, 13 June 2024
German-Brazilian photographer, businessman (d. 1882) June 24 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (d. 1897) June 26 – Amédée Courbet, French admiral...
20 KB (2,326 words) - 16:21, 12 September 2024
legalization of foreign interference in the interior. Although Louis Brière de l'Isle was unable to invade its depot at Longzhou, the Guangxi Army saw...
74 KB (5,975 words) - 21:36, 13 October 2024
Expansion continued under Governor Louis Brière de l'Isle from 1876 to 1881. Through diplomatic and military efforts, Briere reinforced French control on the...
14 KB (1,607 words) - 23:16, 11 September 2024
strength of 550 men were unfit for duty. In November 1884 General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the commander of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, took steps to...
25 KB (3,566 words) - 02:51, 16 October 2024
OCLC 855518794. Poyen-Bellisle, H. de, L'artillerie de la Marine à Formose (Paris, 1888) Rollet de l'Isle, M., Au Tonkin et dans les mers de Chine (Paris, 1886) Rouil...
67 KB (9,950 words) - 22:18, 22 September 2024
politician, governor and senator from Michigan (b. 1804) June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (b. 1827) July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American...
40 KB (4,368 words) - 20:32, 7 October 2024
considerable embarrassment for France. On 17 February 1885 General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, left Lạng...
26 KB (3,448 words) - 17:54, 13 June 2024
Arlington, L. C., Through the Dragon's Eyes (London, 1931) Loir, M., L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet (Paris, 1886) Lung Chang [龍章], Yueh-nan yu Chung-fa chan-cheng...
28 KB (3,189 words) - 05:24, 27 April 2024
1884 and was replaced by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the senior of his two brigade commanders. Brière de l'Isle's first task was to beat off a major...
13 KB (1,805 words) - 17:54, 13 June 2024
brigade Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–1896), who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal. The 2nd Brigade was commanded by général de brigade...
4 KB (529 words) - 20:06, 6 July 2023
(New York, 1968) Thomazi, A., La conquête de l'Indochine (Paris, 1934) Thomazi, A., Histoire militaire de l'Indochine français (Hanoi, 1931) Japanese...
8 KB (920 words) - 21:26, 27 August 2024
however on January 3, 1885 Jules Louis Lewal succeeded Campenon as Minister of War. This permitted General Louis Brière de l'Isle to organize the Lạng Sơn expeditionary...
59 KB (8,063 words) - 06:47, 17 August 2024