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The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...
Duong Van Mai Elliott was born in 1941 into a middle-class family with eleven other siblings. [3] Her father held several official positions under the French-controlled Vietnamese government . [ 3 ] He later became the post- WWII governor of Haiphong , following his family's long-standing tradition of serving in various bureaucratic roles. [ 3 ]
During this period, Ho Chi Minh created the Viet Minh in 1941 to coordinate resistance against both French colonial authorities and Imperial Japanese occupying forces. [1] This group fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese and were to a degree supported by the Americans in 1945 via the Office of Strategic Services . [ 2 ]
The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng (Vietnamese: [vìət naːm kwə́wk zən ɗa᷉ːŋ]; chữ Hán: 越南國民黨; lit. ' Vietnamese Nationalist Party ' or ' Vietnamese National Party '), abbreviated VNQDĐ or Việt Quốc, was a nationalist and democratic socialist political party that sought independence from French colonial rule in Vietnam during the early 20th century. [4]
For centuries before the Lê dynasty, the Vietnamese and Lao polities existed side by side and frequently interacted. The Vietnamese chronicles records growing clashes between various Tai polities with the Viet court in the 1320s and 1330s, specifically the Ngưu Hống of Sip Song Chau Tai and the Ailao of Houaphanh and Vientiane. [11]
The Lạc Việt or Luoyue (駱越 or 雒越; pinyin: Luòyuè ← Middle Chinese: *lɑk̚-ɦʉɐt̚ ← Old Chinese *râk-wat [1]) were an ancient conglomeration of likely multilinguistic tribal peoples, specifically Kra-Dai and Austroasiatic tribal peoples that inhabited ancient northern Vietnam, and, particularly the ancient Red River Delta ...
The Ming invasion of Viet (Chinese: 明入越 [5] / 平定交南 [6]), known in Vietnam as the Ming–Đại Ngu War (traditional Chinese: 大虞與明戰爭; simplified Chinese: 大虞与明战争; Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đại Ngu–Đại Minh / cuộc xâm lược của nhà Minh 1406–1407; Hán Nôm: 戰爭大虞 – 大明) was a military campaign against the kingdom of Đại Ngu ...
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.