( vi-hantu, 黎文 ; died 1834) was the adopted son of the

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

ese general Lê Văn Duyệt. He led the 1833–1835

Lê Văn Khôi revolt The Lê Văn Khôi revolt ( vi, Cuộc nổi dậy Lê Văn Khôi, 1833–1835) was an important revolt in 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Vietnamese Catholics, French Catholic missionaries and Chinese settlers under the ...

against Emperor

Minh Mạng Minh Mạng () or Minh Mệnh (, vi-hantu, 明命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven"; 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu) was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of V ...

, but died in 1834. As Duyệt was being prosecuted and his relatives condemned, Khôi had been imprisoned, but managed to escape on May 10, 1833. Soon, numerous people joined his revolt, in the desire to avenge Duyệt and challenge the legitimacy of the

Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...

.Wook, p. 95. Khôi fortified himself into the Citadel of Saigon and asked for the help of the Siamese. Khôi died in December 1834 during the siege and was succeeded by his 8-year-old son Lê Văn Cù.Chapuis, p.192 The Citadel fell in September 1835, and Cù was tortured and executed, together with the French missionary Joseph Marchand.Nghia M. Vo - Saigon: A History - Page 53 2011 "The six principal leaders were sent to Huế to be executed. Among them were the French missionary Marchand, accused of being the leader of the Catholic rebel group; Nguyễn Văn Trấm, the leader of the hồi lương who took the command of the revolt after Lê Văn Khôi's death in 1834; and Lưu Tín, the Chinese leader."

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