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Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnamese: [ɗîənˀ ɓīən fû] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 奠 邊 府) is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam. It is the capital of Điện Biên Province . The city is best known for the decisive Battle of Điện Biên Phủ , which occurred during the First Indochina War of independence against France.
Dien Bien Phu was a serious defeat for the French and was the decisive battle of the Indochina war. [ 96 ] [ 97 ] [ 98 ] The garrison constituted roughly one-tenth of the total French Union manpower in Indochina, [ 99 ] and the defeat seriously weakened the position and prestige of the French; it produced psychological repercussions both in the ...
Dien was proclaimed a national hero by the Việt Minh after his death in the period leading up to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Before the battle, General Võ Nguyên Giáp , commanding the Việt Minh, needed to move large numbers of artillery through the jungle from the roads and tracks on which they had arrived into specially dug casements ...
Eventually, Dien Bien Phu surrendered on May 7, 1954, though Sassi's emergency column found rare Dien Bien Phu survivors who had escaped through the jungle, approximatively 150. [ 3 ] After the war, the military jury charged General Cogny—who ordered the Dien Bien Phu garrison to surrender from his base in Hanoi—for the operation's failure ...
Tran Thanh Tu Infantry battalions 353, 375, 400 Infantry regiment 57 Nguyen Can Infantry battalions 265, 346, 418 Division 308 Title: Quan Tien Phong (Vanguard) Codename: 'Việt Bắc' Colonel Vuong Thua Vu Commissar Song Hao Infantry regiment 36 Title: Bac Bac Alias: Sa Pa Pham Hong Son Infantry battalions 80, 84, 89 Infantry regiment 88 ...
In May 1954, after eight years of fighting, the French were surrounded and defeated in a mountainous northern fortress at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. [23] France's withdrawal from Indochina was finalised in the Geneva Accords of July 1954, after two months of negotiations between Ho's DRV, France, the PRC and the Soviet Union.
Điện Biên (chữ Hán: 奠 邊) is a province in the Northwest region of Vietnam. It is bordered by Lai Châu to the northeast, Sơn La to the southeast, Pu'er City , Yunnan , China, to the northwest, and Phongsaly province in Laos to the west.
While a student, Giáp had taken lodgings with Professor Dang Thai Minh, [26] whose daughter, Nguyen Thi Minh Giang (also cited as Nguyễn Thị Quang Thái ; 1915–1944), [27] [28] he had first met at school in Hue. She too had learned nationalism from her father and had joined the revolutionary activities with which Giáp was involved.