What the records say
- When
- 22 Mar 1862
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 10.25° N, 105.97° E
Capture of Vĩnh Long
The Capture of Vĩnh Long on 22 March 1862 was the last major allied victory of 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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