Regional1884 – 1885 · 1 year
Siege of Tuyen Quang
Tuyen Quang · Tonkin · Vietnam
Estimated casualties
Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.
A four-month siege (November 1884-March 1885) during the Sino-French War in which a French garrison of 619 men, including French Foreign Legion companies, held the post of Tuyen Quang against vastly larger Chinese Yunnan Army and Black Flag forces until relieved. It became a celebrated Legion epic.
Belligerents2
- France
- China (Yunnan Army and Black Flag Army)
Sources
- Wikipedia: Siege of Tuyen Quang
- Sino-French War (Wikipedia)
- Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0
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