Tôn Thất Thuyết ( 尊室説; 12 May 1839 in

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– 1913 in

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) was the leading

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of Emperor

Tự Đức Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, 嗣德, lit. "inheritance of virtues", 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm , also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam; he ruled ...

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. Thuyết later led the Cần Vương movement which aimed to restore Vietnamese independence under Emperor

Hàm Nghi Emperor Hàm Nghi (, vi-hantu, lit. "entirely right", ar, هام نغي; 3 August 1872 – 4 January 1943), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch, also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. He reign ...

.Charles Keith ''Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation'' 2012 p. 52 "In July 1885, as Qing forces were withdrawing, the regent Tôn Thất Thuyết led an attack on the French garrison at huế and escaped with the young emperor hàm nghi into the mountains. Thuyết called for a general uprising and for all of the ..." He fled to China seeking political refuge after Hàm Nghi's capture by France, and later died in

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1839 births 1913 deaths Nguyen dynasty officials Vietnamese nationalists Vietnamese revolutionaries Date of death missing Place of death missing {{vietnam-politician-stub