Cochinchina Campaign
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Was a joint military expedition by France and Spain agains the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam. The operation was started on the pretext of the persecution of Christian missionaries but led to the French occupation of territories in Vietnam that represented the initial core of French Indochina.
Chronology
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April 1861: Joint French and Spanish forces captured Mỹ Tho.
December 1861: Joint French and Spanish forces captured Biên Hòa.
November 1859: A joint Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly captured Tourane (Da Nang) in September 1858.
March 1860: French admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly was besieged in the city of Da Nangby the Vietnamese and forced eventually to evacuate it in March 1860.
March 1862: Joint French and Spanish forces captured Vĩnh Long.
February 1859: In 1859, Saigon was captured by a Franco-Spanish flotilla.
Was the war that concluded the Cochinchina campaign and created the French colony of Cochinchina.
June 1862: The war concluded with the founding of the French colony of Cochinchina. Tự Đức ceded Saigon, the island of Poulo Condor and three southern provinces of what was to become known as Cochinchina (Bien Hoa, Gia Dinh, and Dinh Tuong) to the French.
June 1862: The French established the colony of Cochinchina with the 1862 Treaty of Saigon.
