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	Sino-French War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sino-French War or Franco-Chinese War was a war fought between the French Third Republic and Qing Empire that lasted from September 1884 to June 1885.
		It protested the French presence and began to prepare for war.
		French forces under Captain Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi, the capital of Tonkin on April 25, 1882.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franco-Chinese_War (653 words)

	ironcladpirate: Battle of Foochow (Fuzhou), Sino-French War
		In this war, while the French navy could cruise the coastline and attack weak targets of their choosing, on land the Chinese army managed to fight off a French invasion, and so the war was not as one-sided as the Europeans hoped.
		The French armored cruisers Bayard and La Galissonniere were not in the middle of the naval battle but instead stayed out at the mouth of the river, destroying shore batteries and forts with their heavy guns.
		The dockyards and arsenal itself were also blasted by the French ships, which then made their way back down the river, destroying fortresses and shore batteries as they went.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Agora/8088/FoochowB.html (493 words)

	1872-73. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The result was the Sino-French War (1884), in the course of which the French suffered a setback at Lang-son (March 28, 1885), which in turn led to the overthrow of Jules Ferry, the prime mover for expansion in France.
		A millenarian rebellion led by one claiming the impending return of the Maitreya (Buddha of the future) was launched by peasants against the French.
		The French, though, still had to deal with pirates and Black Flags in Tonkin who were supported by the Chinese.
	www.bartleby.com /67/1474.html (509 words)

	Untitled Document
		Followed the war a series of unprecedented events such as unequal treaties: in 1842 the Sino--British Treaty of Nanjing, in 1844 the sino—American Treaty of Wangxia and the Sino-French Treaty of Huangpu.
		Sino-French War 1884—1885, Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, Treaty of Shimonoseki
		Before the Opium War in accordance with the lifestyle of agrarian society, the dominate forms of sporting activities in China then were traditional ones, mainly Wushu(martial arts), Qigong(a popular form of regimen), and variety of other folk physical exercises which fitted perfectly in the agrarian social setting.
	blues.uab.es /olympic.studies/lessons/lesson4/center2.html (665 words)

	Sino-Vietnamese War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sino-Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War was a war fought in 1979 between the neighboring countries of the People's Republic of China and Vietnam.
		During the initial stages of the Vietnam War with France, Communist China and Vietnam had close ties, with both having a mutual distrust of the former French rulers of Vietnam.
		Both the Soviet Union and China continued to supply what was now North Vietnam during their war against the South, and their U.S., French, and Australian supporters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War (1537 words)

	CSMC
		Chinese Students in Hartford (1872 - 1881) Who Fought in the Sino-French Naval War (1884) and the Sino-Japanese Naval War (1894 -1895)
		In the Sino-Japanese Naval War (1894 -1895), eleven students fought at the Battle of the Yalu; three died in combat.
		At the end of the Sino-Japanese Naval War, China ceded Taiwan, the Pescadores, and Port Arthur to Japan.
	www.120chinesestudents.org /students/students03.html (534 words)

	Ancient Vietnam
		French missionary Pierre Pigneau de Behaine persuades the French court to assist in restoration of the Nguyen, in expectation of rtrading and missionary privileges to the French.
		The first national government in Vietnam is formed in a vacuum left by the Japanese defeat of the French in WWII and the abrupt collapse of the Japanese occupation by their military defeat.
		French troops move to northern Vietnam to expand control of Indochina.
	www.ichiban1.org /html/history/bc_1964_prewar/chinese_invasions_500bc_1427.htm (1362 words)

	The History Guy: The War List
		These wars are placed in the Anglo-French category as an illustration of their placement in the pattern of wars between those two countries.
		Naples was conquered by the French in early 1799 and declared to be the new Parthenopean Republic.
		Parts of the war saw the Muslims and Croatians cooperate against their common foe, but from 1993-1994, Bosnia saw a three-way war when the Muslims and Croats battled each other as well as fighting the Serbs.
	www.historyguy.com /War_list.html (4852 words)

	Tuyen Quang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The site of a Sino-Vaubadian citadel, Tuyen Quang was defended by a battalion of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War.
		It was here that Viet Minh leaders were said to have announced that the next phase of the war against French imperialism would occur in Algeria.
		As a town in French Indochina, Tuyen Quang served as a garrison.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tuyen_Quang (166 words)

	The T. Rex Essay: The Sino-French War
		At the end of March, the French commander at the front was seriously injured and replaced by a newcomer to the war.
		After the war was over, the French had gained the same rights that they had sought with the Philastre treaty they had signed in 1874.
		China's main reasons for entering the war were for the protection of a satellite country and for the expansion of the empire.
	quinnell.us /conflict/essay/sino1.html (1863 words)

	Third World War (1982)
		Far more than either the First World War or the Second World War, the Third World War was a conflict that was global in its effects despite the brief seven months of warfare.
		The terminal phase of the Third World War began in space, at roughly 300 Greenwich Mean Time, on the 2nd of September.
		More than anything else, this declaration made the Chinese government commit fully to the war; any cession of territory to an Amero-Indonesian puppet regime could only signal the eventual subordination of China to foreign imperialists and such was ideologically unacceptable.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/ww3.html (2497 words)

	Franco-Chinese War
		The treaty ending the war was signed June 9 1885.
		These territories were later included into French Indochina.
		A new historical espionage thriller by Alan Furst is always cause for celebration, and in his eighth novel, the talented writer who's made a particular time and place his own--Europe on the eve of World War II--takes his fortunate readers aboard the tramp...
	www.freeglossary.com /Sino-French_War (412 words)

	les quarantes glorieuses (1945-1981)
		Much the same prevailed in the Indochinese Union before independence from the French Community in 1969, but particularly after the French retroceded to the People's Republic the island of Hainan and certain northern districts acquired in the Sino-French War of 1884-1885.
		A violent Sino-Vietnamese border clash in 1977 incited a regional arms race in eastern Asia, as the bottomless resources of the United States and Siberia financed the acquisition of all manner of advanced weaponries by their regional partners.
		Worse, the attraction of many educated Chinese to Communism appalled many conservative nationalists, particularly after the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War in 1947.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/tpahist6.html (670 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the face of an impending war with Japan, elite members of the Nationalist government captured Chiang kai-shek, leader of the Nationalists, and forced him to stop civil war with the Communists and sit down and talk about an alliance with the Communists in the face of Japanese invasion.
		Wars with foreign countries in the second half of the 19th century
		The war lasted for eight years, finally ending with the American dropping two A-bombs in Japan in August 1945.
	www.iun.edu /~hisdcl/g387/chinaoutline.htm (638 words)

	Sino Japanese War (1937 1945)
		The Soviet Union was exploitingthe Kuomintang government to hinder the Japanese from invading Siberia, thus savingitself from a two-front war.
		Chiang Kai-shek received somesupplies from the United States once the conflict was escalated to theAsian theatre of WWII, and he was appointed Commander-in-chief of the China war zone by the Allies in 1942.
		Notoriously poor relations between Colonel Joseph Stilwell and Chiang led to Stilwell's devious criticism and hisminimizing of the Chinese contribution in World War II in the American media and to President Franklin Roosevelt.
	www.therfcc.org /sino-japanese-war-1937-1945--18354.html (1233 words)

	part 2
		Then in the nineteenth century during the French rule a new Vietnamese white collar group emerged and were in demand.
		In 1847 French vessels attack Da Nang in response to persecution of Catholic missionaries.
		French now has conquered all of southern Vietnam and became the French colony of Cochin China.
	www.faculty.fairfield.edu /faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/Projects2003/LauraB/part_2.html (641 words)

	Blogging... Walk The Talk
		During that war in which France and China disputed who had the sphere of influence in Vietnam (France won out), French ships were in the harbour for repairs after attacking Chinese interests in Fujian and Taiwan.
		The first time that French forces saw action in China was in 1860, when they were part of a joint Anglo-French force that occupied Beijing, ending the Second Opium War.
		A patriotic Chinese strike was organized by the local populace against helping the French ships, and eventually led to the police and ultimately the colonial garrison called out to stop the protests at the points of their rifle bayonets.
	www.blogthetalk.com (4270 words)

	Past Bayonets Sold
		The French wars during the useful "life-span" of this bayonet were:
		The French model was designed to fit on the French Model 1866 Chassepot Rifled Infantry Musket (the musket was revolutionary in itself).
		This is a French Model 1886 Lebel Infantry Bayonet without hooked quillon, made for the various WWI era - possibly WWII era - "Lebel" and "Fusil" Infantry Rifles, with evolutionary modifications.
	arms2armor.com /Collectibles/bayosold.htm (3480 words)

	TS-Shih
		The tactics of unilateral withdrawal appeared also in the Sino-Indian war of 1962 and in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979.
		The PLA intervened in the war in the guise of the People's Voluntary Troops to indicate the appearance of peace between the Chinese and American state and the abdication of territorial ambition for the Chinese.
		Zhou Enlai‘s celebration of the victory of land reform during the Korean War signified that the war was and, perhaps, had to be on two fronts simultaneously.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TS-Shih.htm (11713 words)

	The opium war and decision to learn from the west
		It was followed by a series of military defeats of China in the rest of the 19th century: the Second Opium War (1858-60); the Sino-French War (1884-85); the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), and finally, the retaliation of the Eight Allied Forces against China (1900-01).
		The Opium War was started by the British over Chinese banning of opium trade: the British merchants petitioned the British parliament to send troops to retaliate against the Chinese government because it banned British opium, grown in India, to be sold in China.
		The Opium War (1839-42) was a decisive turning point in Chinese history, when the British badly defeated the Chinese over the Chinese boycott of opium trade.
	www.iun.edu /~hisdcl/h207_2002/opiumwar.htm (464 words)

	Western Incursions
		During the Opium War (1839-42) an aggressive, expansive empire that was well under way to establish itself as the world’s foremost sea power, met with a Chinese dynasty, that after great geographical expansion seemed to have reached the limits of development.
		The name Opium War stemmed from the dominant object of trade in the economic triangle of India, Britain and China.
		The British Crown reacted promptly and the conflict deepened when in early November a Chinese war junk was sunk in the Pearl River.
	www.lcsc.edu /modernchina/u3s1p5.htm (775 words)

	Untitled Document
		Ten years after the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War broke out and lasted from 1894-1895.
		As the war was being fought on the mainland, Taiwan also felt the political strife between the warring parties.
		When the Chinese Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists broke out, the process of joining China and Taiwan was put on hold with the internal strife on both sides of the strait.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /~jamackay/history.html (517 words)

	ipedia.com: History of China Article
		As a result, the Qing's "New Armies" were soundly defeated in the Sino-French War (1883-1885) and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895).
		Following the First Opium War, British commerce, and later capital invested by other newly industrializing powers, was securable with a smaller degree of formal control than in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and the Pacific.
		The Jin Dynasty was defeated by the Mongols, who then proceeded to defeat the Southern Song in a long and bloody war — the first war ever in which firearms played an important role.
	www.ipedia.com /history_of_china.html (3958 words)

	Zhuang 020
		But from 1912-1918 the flow of foreign goods, primarily French, into Guangxi increased by a factor of 17.5, despite the disruptions caused by World War I to European industry.
		French goods had earlier been relatively unimportant to China and were simply classified as "other" in import statistics until 1909.
		These problems might have remained isolated local ones, but for the inter-provincial wars of the period.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/zhuang20.htm (8541 words)

	Art Bulletin, The: Remapping borders: Ren Bonian's frontier paintings and urban life in 1880s Shanghai
		In Shanghai of the 1880s, the Sino-French War, for example, was experienced not as a distant affair but as a daily disruption, given the fact that many Chinese lived in the French concession, and even those living in the Chinese sections of the city frequently visited its shops and pleasure quarters.
		As a direct consequence of the Opium War (1840-42), the treaty port of Shanghai emerged as one of the most cosmopolitan and commercially vibrant cities in nineteenth-century China.
		In addition, the circulation of modern print media such as newspapers and magazines in urban centers like Shanghai not only made events occurring on the nation's borders--once so distant--more vivid and visible than ever but also gave an immediacy to inhabitants' sense of the threat of war and the nation's imperilment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_86/ai_n8680829 (1087 words)

	The Zhuang in the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier
		In the Sino-French war the brunt of the fighting in the field fell upon the Yellow Flags, and upon the forces from Guangxi, in short, upon the Zhuang.
		The Taiping wars and the Sino-French war again brought large numbers of soldiers into Guangxi, many of whom inevitably chose to stay as the population density there was far below that of neighboring provinces like Hunan and Guangdong.
		During the Sino-French War Liu and Huang quarreled, and Huang later led two Battalions of his men into the Qing regular forces.
	mcel.pacificu.edu /as/resources/zhuang/Zhuang18.htm (11337 words)

	Wikinfo Battle of Foochow
		The Battle of Foochow occurred in August of 1885 during the Sino-French War.
		The battle heralded a change in the balance of power in the region, and helped indirectly to lead to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
		The modern navy recently built by China was utterly destroyed while at anchor by the forces of France in a brief battle lasting a little over thirty minutes.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Battle_of_Foochow (151 words)

	SinoFrench
		The French established the Indochinese Union in 1887, consisting of Kampuchea; Cochin China; Annam; Tonkin; and Laos.
		In early 1885, French forces attempted to advance into southern China, but were heavily defeated by a combined Chinese/Vietnamese army at Liangshan in northern Vietnam.
		This defeat led to the fall of the French cabinet, but the French retaliated by attacking Keelung in Taiwan; occupying the Pescadores Islands; blockading the port of Foochow, and there destroying the Chinese navy (11 Chinese steamers being sunk).
	sirgarnet.com /SinoFrench.html (257 words)

	Chinese Military History (A quick summary)
		Sino-Japanese war was 1895 and Taiwan was given to Japan in the same year (and Japan took over).
		A crappy offensive followed by a ten year long war of attrition and in the end Vietnam lost that entire stretch of border territory.
		I simply assumed that the limited actions by the communists who were still a very small rebel group in the 20s didn't amount to civil war.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/843829/posts (1511 words)

	Chinese Settlement - History - Taiwan - Asia
		During the Sino-French War of 1884 and 1885 the French imposed a partial blockade against Taiwan.
		The Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 terminated the first Sino-Japanese War and required that China cede Taiwan and the P’enghu Islands to Japan.
		As a result of Britain’s victory against China in the Opium Wars and the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin in 1860, two ports on Taiwan’s western coast opened to foreign ships.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/taiwan/history/chinese_settlement.htm (227 words)

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