Vietnam/France: The French gunship 'Revolver' runs the gauntlet of the Chinese defences at Yo Oc on the Clear River, October 1884. Engraving, 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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