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The Second Battle of Quang Tri (Vietnamese: Trận Thành cổ Quảng Trị; also called Operation Lam Sơn 72) began on 28 June 1972 and lasted 81 days until 16 September 1972, when South Vietnam's Army of the Republic of Vietnam defeated the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) at the ancient citadel of Quảng Trị (Vietnamese: Thành cổ Quảng Trị) and recaptured most of ...
Tây Ninh Combat Base was established approximately 5 km west of the city of Tây Ninh and 12 km from the Vietnam-Cambodia border. [ 1] Tây Ninh served as the base for the 196th Light Infantry Brigade from April 1966 until August 1967. [ 2] Other units stationed at Tây Ninh included: 7th Battalion, 9th Artillery (August 1969 – April 1970 ...
Đại La was known as the city that the Tang general Gao Pian had built in the 860s after the ravages of the Nanzhao War. In 1010, Lý Công Uẩn published an edict explaining why he moved his capital to Dai La. [ 4 ] Lý Công Uẩn chose the site because it had been an earlier capital in the rich Red River Delta .
Thích Trí Quang was born as Phạm Quang on 21 December 1923 in the village of Diêm Điền to the west of the Nhật Lệ River, in Quảng Bình Province in central Vietnam. He entered the religious life at the age of 13 and was a disciple of Hòa Thượng (Most Venerable) Thích Trí Độ , the chairman of the Hội Phật Giáo Cứu ...
On 2 July 1976, North and South Vietnam were merged to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [153] The war had devastated Vietnam and killed 966,000 to 3.8 million people. [154] [155] [156] A 1974 US Senate subcommittee estimated nearly 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians were killed or wounded between 1965 and 1974—including 415,000 killed.
Battle of Quang Tri (1968) / 16.74028°N 107.18750°E / 16.74028; 107.18750. The Battle for Quang Tri occurred in and around Quảng Trị City ( Quảng Trị Province ), the northernmost provincial capital of South Vietnam during the Tet Offensive when the Vietcong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attacked Army of the Republic ...
Thánh Gióng ( chữ Nôm: 聖揀), [1] also known as Phù Đổng Thiên Vương ( chữ Hán: 扶董天王, Heavenly Prince of Phù Đổng ), Sóc Thiên Vương ( chữ Hán: 朔天王), Ông Gióng (翁揀, sir Gióng) [2] [3] and Xung Thiên Thần Vương (冲天神王, Divine Prince of Heaven) is a mythical folk hero of Vietnam's ...
Trần Đại Quang. Trần Đại Quang (12 October 1956 – 21 September 2018) was a Vietnamese politician and former police general who served as the ninth President of Vietnam from 2016 until his death in 2018. After serving for five years as the Minister of Public Security (2011–2016), Quang was nominated by his predecessor Trương ...