Vietnam: Former Black Flags serving as French auxiliaries (Tirailleurs Tonkinois), Tonkin. Photo by Charles-Edouard Hocquard (1853-1911), 1884. The Black Flag Army (Chinese: Heiqi Jun; Vietnamese: Quan co den) was a splinter remnant of a bandit group recruited largely from soldiers of ethnic Zhuang background, who crossed the border from Guangxi province of China into Upper Tonkin, in the Empire of Annam (Vietnam) in 1865. They became known mainly for their fights against French forces in cooperation with both Vietnamese and Chinese authorities.

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