Battle of Nui Bop

When

3 Jan 1885 – 4 Jan 1885

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

21.85° N, 106.76° E

Description

1885 battle of the Sino-French War

Part of the Sino-French War

The Battle of Núi Bop was a French victory during the Sino-French War. The battle was fought to clear Chinese forces away from the French forward base at Chu, and was an essential preliminary to the Lạng Sơn Campaign in February 1885.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sino-French War: Battle of Núi Bop – French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietnam”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire française sur la Chine à la bataille de Nui Bop, au Tonkin”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Sino-French15 Jun 1884 · Interstate war · Deaths 12,100