Vietnam/Algeria/France: Tonkin Campaign - French Zouave battalion embarking at Algiers for Tonkin, January 1885. Lithograph by G. Julien (fl. 19th century), 1886. The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was a 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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