Vietnam: A French officer of the topographical service, probably Captain Jean-Francois-Alphonse Lecomte (1850–1919), Tonkin Campaign, 1884. Drawing by Maurice Rollet de l'Isle (19 November 1859 - 24 November 1943), 1886. 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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