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Bombardment Of Tourane (1847)
The Bombardment of Tourane (15 April 1847) was a naval incident that took place during the short reign of the Vietnamese emperor Thiệu Trị (1841–47), which saw a considerable worsening of relations between France and Vietnam. The French warships ''Gloire'' and ''Victorieuse'', which had been sent to Tourane (now Da Nang) to negotiate for the release of two French Catholic missionaries, were surprise attacked by several Vietnamese vessels. The two French ships fought back, sinking four Vietnamese corvettes, badly damaging a fifth, and inflicting just under 230 casualties. In response to this and other provocations, the French eventually decided to intervene actively in Vietnam, and a decade later launched the Cochinchina Campaign (1858–62), which inaugurated the period of French colonial rule in Vietnam. Background French missionaries had been active in Vietnam since the seventeenth century, and by the middle of the nineteenth century there were perhaps 300,000 Catholic co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombardment Of Tourane (1856)
The second French bombardment of Tourane (Đà Nẵng) took place on 26 September 1856, between the first bombardment in 1847 and the third bombardment at the start of the Cochinchina campaign in 1858. Tự Đức, who succeeded to the throne in 1847, increased the persecution of Christians in Vietnam. At first, he only forbade the missionaries to proselytise on pain of death. Later, he instituted bounties for the heads of foreign missionaries and Vietnamese converts.Charles Boswell Norman''Tonkin, or France in the Far East''(Chapman and Hall, 1884), pp. 54–55. Two French missionaries, Jean-Louis Bonnard and Augustin Schoeffler, were executed.Mark W. McLeod, ''The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862–1874'' (Praeger, 1991), pp. 39–40. In 1856, the French government decided to formally protest. The sloop of war ''Catinat'' under Commander William Le Lieur de Ville-sur-Arce was then at Bangkok waiting to escort the special envoy Charles de Montigny to Vietnam in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |