What the records say
- When
- Mar 1860 – Feb 1861
- Kind
- Siege
- Coordinates
- 10.82° N, 106.63° E
- Description
- two-year siege of Saigon started with its capture on February 17, 1859 by Franco-Spanish forces
Siege of Saigon
1859 French-Vietnamese battle
The siege of Saigon, a two-year siege of the city by the Vietnamese after its capture on 17 February 1859 by a Franco-Spanish flotilla under the command of the French admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, was one of the major events of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–1862). Saigon was of great strategic importance, both as the key food-producing area of Vietnam and as the gateway to Cochinchina.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “début du siège de Saigon par les Vietnamiens (fin en février 1862)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page