What the records say
- When
- 12 Apr 1861
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 10.36° N, 106.36° E
- Description
- 1861 naval battle
- Naval
- yes
Capture of Mỹ Tho
The Capture of Mỹ Tho on 12 April 1861 was an important allied victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest.
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- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “campagne de Cochinchine : prise de Mỹ Tho par les forces franco-espagnoles”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page