Vietnam: A victorious French sailor poses with a tricolour at the capture of the Thuan An forts, 20 August 1883. Engraving by Charles-Lucien Huard (12 February 1837 - 22 January 1899), 1887. The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.

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