Vietnam/France: 2nd Lieutenant Bossant, marine infantry, killed in action in the Battle of Bac Vie (Lang Son Campaign), 12 February 1885. Portrait by Paul Thiriat (30 December 1868 - 11 April 1943), 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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