Lạng Sơn Campaign

When

3 Feb 1885 – 13 Feb 1885

Kind

Event

Coordinates

21.83° N, 106.75° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Lạng Sơn campaign.

1885 French offensive in Sino-French War

The Lạng Sơn campaign was a major French offensive in Tonkin during the Sino-French War. The Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, under the command of General Louis Brière de l'Isle, defeated the Chinese Guangxi Army and captured the strategically important town of Lạng Sơn in a ten-day campaign mounted under formidable logistical constraints.

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