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		The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (French: Bataille de Điện Biên Phủ; Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the climactic battle of the First Indochina War between the military forces of France and Vietnamese revolutionary forces called the Viet Minh.
		Dien Bien Phu was "the first time that a non-European colonial independence movement had evolved through all the stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern Western occupier in pitched battle."
		At Dien Bien Phu, however, the Viet Minh controlled much of the high ground around the valley and their artillery far exceeded French expectations and they outnumbered the French by a ratio of four-to-one.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu (5696 words)

	Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnamese: Chiến dịch Điện Biên Phủ) was the final battle in the First Indochina War between France and Vietnamese revolutionary forces called the Viet Minh (short for Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi or the League for the Independence of Vietnam).
		At Dien Bien Phu however, the situation was reversed: the Viet Minh controlled much of the high grounds around the valley and their artillery outnumbered the French by a ratio of four-to-one.
		Operations at Dien Bien Phu began at 10:35 on the morning of November 20, 1953.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu (3412 words)

	Battle of Khe Sanh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Khe Sanh was a Vietnam War battle between the United States Marine Corps and the People's Army of Vietnam at Khe Sanh, Vietnam.
		After heavy casualties, the PAVN claimed the battle to be a diversionary tactic and abandoned the campaign in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive.
		The intensely televised coverage was one of the hallmarks of Vietnam conflict in general and is a subject of study as a psychological and social phenomenon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh (1154 words)

	Dien Bien Phu: A Battle to Remember
		On May 7, 1954, the end of the battle for the jungle fortress of Dien Bien Phu marked the end of French military influence in Asia, just as the sieges of Port Arthur, Corregidor and Singapore had, to a certain extent, broken the spell of Russian, American and British hegemony in Asia.
		Dien Bien Phu was to be the lock on the back door leading into Laos.
		Dien Bien Phu was also to be the test for a new theory of Navarre's.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/Dien_Bien_Phu.htm (3561 words)

	Sidebar
		Bien Phu was a symbol throughout the world that small guerrilla forces like the Viet Minh could turn away even the largest of imperial powers.
		Dien Bien Phu was a huge military victory for the Viet Minh and forced the French to relinquish all colonial control of the region.
		Dien Bien Phu was chosen as a key military position because of its location to Laos and the Viet Minh supply lines.
	maps.unomaha.edu /Peterson/funda/Sidebar/DienBienPhu.htm (1507 words)

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		Battle of Dien Bien Phu Shaped Southeast Asia Vietnam: Peasant army of nationalists and communists defeated the French 40 years ago, ending colonial rule and setting stage for U.S. involvement in most divisive war of its history.
		Dien Bien Phu propelled America into a full-scale war a decade later, boasting that its military and economic might would crush the poorly armed communists and maintain a balance of power in the Free World.
		Dien Bien Phu represents the glory of the old soldiers, an occasion to put on their tattered, mismatched uniforms with medals as they retrace the battlefield and pose for photos for reporters and tourists.
	www.hotkey.net.au /~marshalle/dbp/dbp.htm (2011 words)

	ipedia.com: Battle of Dien Bien Phu Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The battle was fought near the village of Dien Bien Phu in nor...
		The battle was fought near the village of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam and became the last battle between the French and the Vietnamese in the Indochina War which had begun in 1947.
		On the downside, Dien Bien Phu was far enough from Saigon that if a major fight did break out, the French air transport units would be very hard pressed to keep up with demands.
	www.ipedia.com /battle_of_dien_bien_phu.html (1516 words)

	Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dien bien phu (in biên ph) is a small town in northwestern vietnam....
		Henri navarre (1898 - 1983) was the commander of french forces in indochina during the battle of dien bien phu in the first indochina war....
		The battle of dak to was the last of a series of battles in and around the town of dak to, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_dien_bien_phu.htm (3169 words)

	DIEN BIEN PHU
		The Battle of Dien Bien Phu is a well-known historical event symbolising the glorious victory of the Vietnamese people and army.
		Dien Bien Phu is surrounded by mountains and lies in the Muong Thanh valley, a 20-km-long and 6-km-wide heart-shaped basin.
		After the battle the infrastructure was largely undeveloped due to the effects of the war and the unfavourable terrain but there have been great improvements thanks to government investment in Lau Chai province.
	www.angelfire.com /vt/hongnam/dienbienphu.html (1280 words)

	Dien Bien Phu, Battle of - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dien Bien Phu, Battle of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Decisive battle in the Indochina War at a French fortress in North Vietnam, near the Laotian border.
		French troops were besieged 13 March–7 May 1954 by the communist Vietminh, and the eventual fall of Dien Bien Phu resulted in the end of French control of Indochina.
		The French built up a series of interlocking strongpoints at Dien Bien Phu, which occupied a strategic position in a valley on the principal Vietnamese supply route from Laos.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dien%20Bien%20Phu,%20Battle%20of (350 words)

	France Hotels, Paris Hotels and the France Travel Guide - France.com
		The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Ðiện Biên Phủ) occurred in 1954 between Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap and French airborne and Foreign Legion forces.
		The battle was fought near the village of Dien Bien Phu in northern Vietnam and became the last battle in the Indochina War which had begun in 1947.
		The prisoners taken at Dien Bien Phu were the greatest number the Viet Minh had ever captured: one-third of the total captured during the entire war.
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	CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Dien Bien Phu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dien Bien Phu's main garrison also would be supported by a series of firebases -- strongpoints on nearby hills that could bring down fire on an attacker.
		The size of the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu swelled to somewhere between 13,000 and 16,000 troops by March 1954.
		Dien Bien Phu's outlying firebases were overrun within days of the initial assault.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/spotlight (883 words)

	Dien Bien Phu
		Part of his difficulties at Dien Bien Phu was a result of him being given no clear strategic objectives.
		Another operational objective was to use a buildup at Dien Bien Phu to draw the Vietminh out into a set piece battle that the French had been successful at in the past.
		Dien Bein Phu was located in a remote, forest covered area in northwestern Vietnam.
	www.campbell.edu /faculty/Slattery/dien_bien_phu.htm (1106 words)

	Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the Vietnam War
		The 55 day battle from March 13 to May 7, 1954, was a climatic battle between the French and the Viet Minh (Vietnamese Communist forces) that led to the division of Vietnam into North and South Vietnam.
		From 1947 until the Dien Bien Phu battle, the French mastered the skies, but were unable to stop the flow of supplies reaching the Vietnamese guerilla.
		The battle of Dien Bien Phu, and the International Peace Conference that began in Geneva the day after the battle, brought the war to an end on July 20, 1954.
	www.vietnam-war.0catch.com /vietnam_war_dien_bien_phu.htm (337 words)

	Remembering Dien Bien Phu
		The battle of Dien Bien Phu, which saw the defeat of France at the hands of the Vietnamese, is a milestone in the decolonisation struggle worldwide.
		Giap wrote that when his troops opened fire on March 13, 1954, on Dien Bien Phu, the French deputy commander of the base, who was responsible for artillery, killed himself because he was powerless in stopping the heavy Vietnamese barrage.
		THE battle of Dien Bien Phu was a decisive moment for the Vietnamese.
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl2106/stories/20040326000306100.htm (1550 words)

	An Analysis Of The French Defeat At Dien Bien Phu
		Dien Bien Phu resulted in severe political consequences."(6:35) The French defeat was indeed an utter disaster for both France and America who, by 1954, was underwriting 80% of French expenditures in Indochina.
		Dien Bien Phu is located about 8 miles from the Laotian border, and Laos was then a member of the French Union.
		Dien Bien Phu could be used to tempt the Viet Minh into such a battle, and the French could then crush them.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1991/BHD.htm (4900 words)

	Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam - Hanoi,Dien Bien Phu,Ho Chi Minh City \| Travel + Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The battle at Dien Bien Phu brought the eyes of the world to a remote village in northern Vietnam, and brought a colonial force to its knees.
		In the Dien Bien Phu of my imagination, the valley was only about a half-mile wide, and the peaks from which the Vietminh relentlessly fired down with their artillery had cast a more ominous shadow over the French defenses.
		Dien Bien Phu ranks in fame with Verdun, Gallipoli, Guadalcanal, El Alamein, and Stalingrad; other battles may have had a higher quotient of violence and far more casualties, but few were as historically significant.
	www.travelandleisure.com /articles/dien-bien-phu-vietnam (1543 words)

	The Belmont Club: The Last Valley
		As Martin Windrow pointed out in his wonderful history of Dien Bien Phu, The Last Valley, of the three Chinese Communist challenges to the West in the immediate postwar period, the other two being the Malayan Emergency and North Korea's invasion of the South, only the French were unambiguously driven from the field.
		The French high command's decision to garrison Dien Bien Phu was described by a US Army analyst as a violation of "nearly all of the principles of war at every level of war-- strategic, operational, and tactical", yet to a degree it made some sense.
		Although it may be plausibly argued that the fate of Dien Bien Phu had been strategically sealed by the loss of RC4, in tactical terms it was decisively lost at the logistical race between the French, with their single airfield supplying 16 battalions and Giap, with his 100,000 porters desperately sustaining 50 battalions.
	fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2005/06/last-valley.html (10544 words)

	Vietnam to celebrate humbling of the French at Dien Bien Phu
		The battle of Dien Bien Phu began on March 13, 1954, but it was not until May 7 that shell-shocked survivors of the French garrison hoisted the white flag, effectively signalling the end of France's rule in Vietnam.
		For the Communist Party, the battle is a key tool in its efforts to assert its legitimacy amid growing disillusionment amongst the population over rampant corruption within its ranks.
		Struggling to counter their classic guerrilla warfare tactics, French military commanders in late 1953 picked Dien Bien Phu near the Lao border as the place to decisively engage the peasant army in a conventional battle.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040506011917.46w04q4f.html (621 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| France and Vietnam mark battle
		Vietnam and France are marking 50 years since the defeat of French troops at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, leading to the end of French rule in Indochina.
		Vietnam is celebrating its 1954 victory with ceremonies for war veterans in Dien Bien Phu and across the country.
		Dien Bien Phu was a mortal blow to France's aspiration to remain a global power.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3692767.stm (492 words)

	The Daily Reckoning UK - Deflation and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
		Deflation and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
		The broad outlines of the battle were as follows: French parachutists took control of the airfield followed by 15,000 troops under Colonel Christian de Castries.
		Dien Bien Phu was not on a plateau, but in a depression, surrounded by hills covered in jungle.
	www.dailyreckoning.co.uk /printerfriendly/view.asp?idarticle=753 (975 words)

	Dien Bien Phu in the age of Iraq - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dien Bien Phu in the age of Iraq - The Boston Globe
		Dien Bien Phu in the age of Iraq
		In contrast, this week's celebrations in Vietnam of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu focused on a man who not only lived under a European empire, but also destroyed it.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/05/09/dien_bien_phu_in_the_age_of_iraq (632 words)

	Action Pursuit Games - SG - The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A strong French base was set up at Dien Bien Phu, to the west of Vietnam near the border with Laos and about 300 miles from Hanoi.
		History says a couple thousand (the "Rats of Nam Yum") didn't leave but did quit fighting and stayed in the middle of Dien Bien Phu; these were reportedly Vietnamese, Tai, Moroccan, and Algerian men.
		By May 7's morning most of Dien Bien Phu belonged to the Viet Minh.
	apg.cfw2.com /article.asp?content_id=7823 (785 words)

	The Vietnam War > University Without Walls Spring 2004
		One of the great battles of the twentieth century, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ended the first Indo-China war.
		The last stage of the battle began on April 29 and lasted without letup until the French surrendered on the evening of May 7.
		The battle of Dien Bien Phu spelled the end of French colonialism in Asia.
	www2.skidmore.edu /uww/vietnam/dien_bien_phu.htm (321 words)

	Vietnam destination - Dien Bien Phu
		Dien Bien Phu is a comparatively new town established in the middle of the 19th century to help to rid the area of incursions by bandits from Siam, Laos and China.
		Recently, Dien Bien Phu has begun to expand rapidly following its designation as Lai Chau's provincial capital and the Vietnam government’s policy of encouraging ethnic Vietnamese families to move to the area.
		Nevertheless, despite a boost from tourism stimulated by the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the town is still little visited.
	www.haivenu-vietnam.com /des-north-dien-bien-phu.htm (401 words)

	cong doan Dienbien Hotel, Vietnam Hotels
		Cong Doan - Dien Bien Phu Hotel has 50 diversified rooms such as meeting hall, dinning room, Karaoke, and bars which are very comfortable with reasonable price for all visitors.
		The Nam Rom River runs across the valley, which is why the Dien Bien Phu valley is so fertile.
		After 1953, French expeditionary corps occupied Dien Bien Phu and set up a group of fortresses equipped with many state-of-the-art weapons.
	www.vietnamhotels.biz /congdoandienbien/index_fr.htm (259 words)

	Battle for Dien Bien Phu DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The battle of Dien Bien Phu is one of the greatest water-shed events of the second half of the twentieth century.
		Not only did Dien Bien Phu instigate the fall of the French Fourth Republic, but ushered in American involvement in Vietnam, contributed to Cambodian genocide of the late 1970s and shaped the foreign policy of numerous nations.
		In all, the DVD is excellent for those really interested in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, or international relations, but may seem lacking and slow to those who are casual viewers.
	www.apexesources.com /dvd/016351098894 (540 words)

	On the 50th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu — Vietnam celebrates victory over colonialism : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Smiling and waving flags, thousands of Vietnamese paraded May 7 on the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, celebrating a victory that ended France’s colonial ambitions in Indochina and set the stage for America’s ill-fated involvement in the conflict.
		But the momentum from the victory at Dien Bien Phu continued, and, in 1975, the Communists ousted U.S. forces from South Vietnam and reunified the country.
		But his gut instincts and natural talent were proven during the pivotal battle at the border outpost of Dien Bien Phu.
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