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The battle of Nam Đông took place from July 5–6, 1964 during the Vietnam War, when the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attacked the Nam Đông CIDG camp in an attempt to overrun it. During the battle, 57 South Vietnamese defenders, two Americans, an Australian Military advisor, and at least 62 attackers were killed.
Casualty estimates range, with Vietnamese sources claiming 50,000 Ming troops dead and 10,000 captured, while the Ming Shilu estimates that around 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers died in that battle. [16] This victory allowed the Vietnamese to encircle the citadel of Dong Quan [ 17 ] and ruined Wang Tong's plans for an offensive.
' Military of and for the people of Vietnam ' [12]), also recognized as the Vietnamese Army (Vietnamese: Quân đội Việt Nam, lit. 'Military of Vietnam'), the People's Army ( Vietnamese : Quân đội Nhân dân ) or colloquially the Troops ( Bộ đội [ʔɓo˧˨ʔ ʔɗoj˧˨ʔ] ), is the national military force of the Socialist Republic ...
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]
Đông Du (Saigon: [ɗəwŋm ju], Hanoi: [ɗəwŋm zu], journey to the east; Japanese: 東遊) was a Vietnamese political movement founded by Phan Bội Châu at the start of the 20th century that encouraged young Vietnamese to go east to Japan to study, in the hope of training a new era of revolutionary independent activists to rise against French colonial rule. [1]
The Airborne Division had its origins in Indochinese-specific units raised under the "jaunissement" program, separating Indochinese members of French paratrooper units of the French Far East Expeditionary Corps forming separate battalions under the Vietnamese National Army, after the independent State of Vietnam was established on 8 March 1949.
Vietnam and the Chinese Model: A Comparative Study of Vietnamese and Chinese Government in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Harvard University Asia Center. ISBN 978-0-674-93721-5. Reid, Anthony; Tran, Nhung Tuyet (2006). Viet Nam: Borderless Histories. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-1-316-44504-4
The Việt Minh (Vietnamese: [vîət mīŋ̟] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 越盟) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh [1] or Việt Nam Độc lập Đồng minh Hội, chữ Hán: 越南獨立同盟(會); French: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam), which was a communist-led national independence coalition ...