Event
Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane (Da Nang in Vietnam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic…
15 Apr 1847 · 16.07° N, 108.21° E
What the records say
- When
- 15 Apr 1847
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 16.07° N, 108.21° E
Placed at the town its text puts it in, Da Nang.
Summary
Bombardment of Tourane: French vessels dispatched by Admiral Cécille bombard Tourane (Da Nang in Vietnam) in response to the persecution of Roman Catholic missionaries.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “destruction de la flotte vietnamienne par l’escadre française du commandant Lapierre à la bataille de Tourane”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page