Vietnam: A Vietnamese portrayal of the French Capture of Hung Hoa (12 April 1884). Illustration, c. 1884. The Capture of Hung Hoa was an important French victory in the Tonkin Campaign, due to the town's strategic importance. 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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