Vietnam/France: Tonkin Campaign - invading French Turcos and fusiliers-marins at the battle for Bac Ninh, 12 March 1884. Epinal print, 1885. 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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