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The Black Flag Army (Chinese: 黑 旗 軍; pinyin: Hēiqí Jūn; Vietnamese: Quân cờ đen, chữ Nôm: 軍旗黰) was a splinter remnant of a bandit and mercenary group recruited largely from soldiers of ethnic Zhuang background and former Taiping soldiers who crossed the border in 1865 from Guangxi, China into northern Vietnam, during the Nguyễn dynasty, and were hired and sponsored by ...
Several hundred Black Flag soldiers, demoralised by the ease with which Courbet and Millot had defeated the Black Flag Army, surrendered to the French in the summer of 1884. One of Millot's final achievements was to advance up the Lô River and throw the Black Flag Army out of Tuyên Quang in the first week of June, again without a single ...
A closeup photo of a Tonkinese rifleman, 1914 Former Yellow Flag soldiers serving under French command, summer 1884. Encouraged by the performance of his Tonkinese auxiliaries in the campaigns of March and April 1884, Millot decided to formalise their status by creating two regiments of Tonkinese tirailleurs, each of 3,000 men, organised into three battalions of four 250-man companies and led ...
Black Flag Army: Commanders and leaders; Henri Rivière † Berthe de Villers † Liu Yongfu. Hoàng Kế Viêm: Strength; 550 men (marine infantry, sailors and artillery) Around 1,500 Black Flag soldiers: Casualties and losses; 35 dead, 52 wounded, most officers killed 3 Guns Captured: Approximately 30 dead, similar number of wounded
The Tonkin campaign was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.
Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty: Commanders and leaders; Alexandre-Eugène Bouët: Liu Yongfu: Strength; 900 French marine infantry and Cochinchinese riflemen 450 Yellow Flag auxiliaries 1 artillery battery 6 gunboats: 1,200 Black Flag soldiers 3,000 Vietnamese soldiers: Casualties and losses; 16 dead, 43 wounded
The US Army has set aside the convictions of 110 Black soldiers charged after the World War I-era Houston riots, with the aim of correcting their decades-old records and characterizing their ...
Sơn Tây was defended by 3,000 veteran soldiers of the Black Flag Army under the command of Liu Yongfu, around 7,000 Vietnamese troops of indifferent quality under the command of Prince Hoàng Kế Viêm, and a contingent of 1,000 Chinese troops under the command of Tang Zhiong (唐炯). Hoàng Kế Viêm's Vietnamese garrisoned the citadel ...