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Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh (chữ Hán: 阮有鏡, 1650–1700), also known as Nguyễn Hữu Kính and his noble rank Lễ Thành Hầu, was a high-ranking general of Lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu. [1] His military expeditions into the Mekong Delta placed the region firmly under Vietnamese administrative control.
Phan Thanh Giản was one of the foremost mandarins of the Nguyễn court. He played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Saigon with the French in 1862. [2] [3] The negotiations led to the formal cession of Vietnamese territory that the French Expeditionary Corps had occupied in 1861 (the first parts of the future colony of Cochinchina): the provinces of Già Dinh, Mỹ Tho, Biên Hòa ...
[2]: 341 For retired U.S. Army Brigadier general James E. Shelton, who was then a major and served as an Operations Officer with the 2/28th Infantry, the lack of reliable intelligence and overconfidence on the part of Allen as the battalion commander, were some of the factors that led to the disastrous outcome in the Ong Thanh battle. [7]
Phan Trần (Vietnamese: Phan Trần truyện, chữ Hán: 潘陳傳) is an anonymous Vietnamese language epic poem in lục bát verse originally written in chữ Nôm. [1] It was first transcribed into the Latin-based modern Vietnamese alphabet in 1889.