Battle of Route Coloniale 4

When

1 Oct 1950 – 13 Oct 1950

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

22.42° N, 106.44° E

Description

battle of the First Indochina War along Route Coloniale 4 (RC4, aka. Highway 4)

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Battle in the First Indochina War (1950)

The Battle of Route Coloniale 4, also called the Autumn-Winter Border Campaign by the Viet Minh, was a battle of the First Indochina War. It took place along Route Coloniale 4, a road used to supply the French military base at Cao Bằng. French military traffic along the road had previously been subject to an ongoing series of ambushes during 1947–1949.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Route Coloniale 4 begins”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht an der Route Coloniale 4 erleiden französische Kolonialtruppen schwere Verluste gegen Einheiten der Việt Minh”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “première grande défaite militaire française de la guerre d'Indochine à la bataille de la RC 4 entre Cao Bang et Lang Son”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• First Indochina War19 Dec 1946 · War of independence · Deaths 450,000