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The Hong River Delta is the cradle of the Vietnamese nation. Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies here. The region was bombed by United States warplanes during the Vietnam War. The region was designated as the Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve as part of UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in 2004. [6]
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff considered and rejected some additions to strategic bombing campaigns that would include targeting a series of dikes and dams along Vietnam's Red River delta. A classified 1965 USAF report suggested that the Red River flood control system could probably not be destroyed by conventional ...
Battle of the Day River The De Lattre Line , named after General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny , was a line of concrete fortifications , obstacles, and weapons installations constructed by the French around the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.
The Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve (established 2004) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in the coastal region of northern Vietnam. Mangroves and intertidal habitats of the Red River Delta form wetlands of high biodiversity especially in the Xuan Thuy and Tien Hai districts. These wetlands are of global importance as migratory sites for several ...
Because the campaign was mainly in the Red River Delta area, 50,000 executions became accepted by scholars. [ 90 ] : 143 [ 91 ] [ 92 ] : 569 [ 93 ] However, declassified documents from Vietnamese and Hungarian archives indicate executions were much lower, though likely greater than 13,500. [ 94 ]
Operation Brochet took place during the French Indochina War, between August and October 1953.A combined arms operation, Brochet involved 18 battalions of the French Expeditionary and Vietnamese National Armies fighting against the 42nd and 50th Viet Minh Regiments, [2] fighting in the southern reaches of the Red River Delta near Tonkin in North Vietnam. [3]
There are 11 biosphere reserves in Vietnam recognized by UNESCO, include: Cần Giờ Mangrove Forest, 2000 [1] Đồng Nai Biosphere Reserve (former Cat Tien, 2001 - extended in 2011) [2] Cát Bà Biosphere Reserve, 2004 [3] Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve, 2004 [4] Kiên Giang Biosphere Reserve, 2006 [5] Western Nghệ An, 2007 [6]
The 3rd Military Region of Vietnam People's Army is directly under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam, tasked to organise, build, manage and command armed forces defending the Red River Delta. [2] The north-West region of Vietnam borders with the Guangxi, China. In 1979, Chinese army with one infantry division, launched an invasion in this ...