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Battle Of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút
The Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút (, ) was fought between the Vietnamese Tây Sơn forces and an army of Siam in present-day Tiền Giang Province of Vietnam on January 20, 1785. It is considered one of the greatest victories in Vietnamese history. Background In the late 18th century, a rebellion broke out in southern Vietnam. The Nguyễn lords, the hereditary rulers in southern Vietnam, were overthrown by the Tây Sơn brothers: Nguyễn Nhạc, Nguyễn Huệ and Nguyễn Lữ in 1777. With the help of supporters, Nguyễn Ánh, a nephew of the last Nguyễn lord, reconquered Gia Định (present day Hồ Chí Minh City) as ''Đại nguyên súy Nhiếp quốc chính'' ("Commander in chief and regent") and later proclaimed himself ''Nguyễn Vương'' ("Nguyễn king"). In 1783 the Tây Sơn rebel forces recaptured Gia Định. Nguyễn Ánh had to flee to Phú Quốc island, while his army was attacked and defeated by a Tây Sơn army. One of Ánh's generals, Ch� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krom Luang Thepharirak
Somdet Phra Samphanthawong Thoe Chaofa Krommaluang Thep-harirak (, 1759–1805), birth name Tan (), was a prince of Siam. He was a nephew of King Rama I. He was known in Vietnamese contexts as Chiêu Tăng (昭曾). Prince Thepharirak was the eldest son of Princess Sri Sudarak (เจ้าฟ้ากรมพระศรีสุดารักษ์) (sister of Phutthayotfa Chulalok) and her Chinese husband Ngoen Saetan (). One of his sisters was Sri Suriyendra. In 1783, Nguyễn Ánh, who was the Nguyễn lord ruled over southern Vietnam, sought aid for Siamese to retake Gia Định (Saigon) from Tây-Sơn rebel forces. In 1785, Prince Thepharirak was ordered to attack Saigon with 50,000 soldiers together with Ánh, while Phraya Wichitnarong led an army through Cambodia in order to gather khmer soldiers to join the battalion. Chaophraya Aphaiphubet (Vietnamese: Chiêu Thùy Biện 昭錘卞), the governor of Cambodia, also sent 5000 Cambodian soldiers to support them.Ngu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamese Army
The Royal Thai Army or RTA (; ) is the army of Thailand and the oldest and largest branch of the Royal Thai Armed Forces. History Origin The Royal Thai Army is responsible for protecting the kingdom's sovereignty. The army was formed in 1874, partly as a response to new security threats following the 1855 Bowring Treaty with Britain, which opened the country for international trade. Current In modern era, the army has a long history of coups d'état and coup attempts. Its leadership continues to see coup-making as one role of the army. On 22 May 2014 the army deposed the government, appointed military officers to the national assembly, and on 21 August 2014 they elected the army's Commander in Chief, General Prayut Chan-o-cha, as prime minister. The general retired October 2014 to concentrate on political reform which he said would take at least a year, following which he promised national elections would be held. The existence of an information warfare unit participating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mạc Tử Sinh
Mạc (chữ Hán: 莫) is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Ma or Mo in Chinese and Mua in Hmong language. It is unrelated to the "Mac" prefix to surnames derived from Gaelic languages. Mac / Mc is an anglicised variation of the surname Mạc. Notable people with the surname Mạc *Mạc Đĩnh Chi, Vietnamese scholar and official of the Trần dynasty (1272–1346) *Mạc Cửu, a Chinese adventurer who played a role in relations between Cambodia and the Nguyễn court *Mạc dynasty, ruled the northern provinces of Vietnam from 1527 until 1592 *Mạc Đăng Dung, Vietnamese emperor and the founder of the Mạc dynasty (1483–1541) *Mạc Đăng Doanh, Vietnamese emperor and the second emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1540) *Mạc Hiến Tông, Vietnamese emperor and the third emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1546) *Mạc Tuyên Tông, Vietnamese emperor and the fourth emperor of the Mạc dynasty (?–1561) *Mạc Mậu Hợp Mạc Mậu Hợp (莫茂 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Văn Thành
Nguyễn Văn Thành (chữ Hán ( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...: 阮文誠; 1758 – 1817) was a Vietnamese general who was governor of Gia Định Province. He conflicted with the emperor Nguyễn Phúc Ánh or Gia Long, on several occasions, including using money reserved for purchasing military provisions to pay off gambling debts for his Gia Định soldiers in Siam. Thành was elevated by the king, but later, following a poem written by his son in 1815, Gia Long had the son executed. Phan Châu Trinh records that the emperor had also had Thành himself and Thành's elderly father executed. In effect this was the case, as Thành was driven to take his own life.Vietnam and the Chinese model: a comparative study of Vietnamese ... - Page 102 Alexander Woodside - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Văn Quân
Le is a romanization of several rare East Asian surnames and a common Vietnamese surname. It is a fairly common surname in the United States, ranked 975th during the 1990 census and 368th during the 2000 census. In 2000, it was the eighth-most-common surname among America's Asian and Pacific Islander population, predominantly from its Vietnamese use. It was also reported among the top 200 surnames in Ontario, Canada, based on a survey of that province's Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients as of the year 2000. Origins of surname Vietnamese Lê is a common Vietnamese surname (third most common), written in Chữ Hán. It is pronounced in the Hanoi dialect and in the Saigon dialect. It is usually pronounced in English, with it being commonly mistaken for another surname, with similar spelling and pronunciation in English, Lý. Chinese Mandarin Le is the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname (written 乐 in Simplified Chinese characters an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Văn Duyệt
Lê Văn Duyệt (1763 or 1764 – 30 July 1832) was a Vietnamese general who helped Nguyễn Ánh—the future Emperor Gia Long—put down the Tây Sơn wars, unify Vietnam and establish the Nguyễn dynasty. After the Nguyễn came to power in 1802, Duyệt became a high-ranking mandarin, serving under the first two Nguyễn emperors Gia Long and Minh Mạng.Nghia M. Vo ''Saigon: A History'' – Page 46 2011 Born into a family of peasants near Tiền Giang, Duyệt joined Prince Nguyễn Ánh in fighting the Tây Sơn wars. Because of Duyệt's military ability, he quickly rose through the ranks of the Nguyễn army and became a marshal when the Tây Sơn-Nguyễn war ended. After the foundation of the Nguyễn dynasty, Duyệt served as a high-ranking mandarin and, later, viceroy of the southern part of Vietnam, ruling from Gia Định (modern-day Saigon). His governance greatly stabilized and helped develop the Nam Bo region, turning it into a wealthy and peaceful reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai language, Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated population of 10 million people as of 2024, 13% of the country's population. Over 17.4 million people (25% of Thailand's population) live within the surrounding Bangkok Metropolitan Region as of the 2021 estimate, making Bangkok a megacity and an extreme primate city, dwarfing Thailand's other urban centres in both size and importance to the national economy. Bangkok traces its roots to a small trading post during the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Ayutthaya era in the 15th century, which eventually grew and became the site of two capital cities, Thonburi Kingdom, Thonburi in 1767 and Rattanakosin Kingdom (1782–1932), Rattanakosin in 1782. Bangkok was at the heart of the modernization of Siam during the late 19th century, as the count ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nguyễn Ánh
Gia Long (Chữ Hán, Chữ hán: 嘉隆) ( (''Hanoi, North''), (''Ho Chi Minh City, South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh (阮暎), was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, dynasty of Vietnam, which would rule the unified territories that constitute modern-day Vietnam until 1945. A nephew of the last Nguyễn lords, Nguyễn lord who ruled over Đàng Trong, south Vietnam, Nguyễn Ánh was forced into hiding in 1777 as a 15-year-old when his family was slain in the Tây Sơn Tây Sơn wars, revolt. After several changes of fortune in which his loyalists regained and again lost Saigon, he befriended the French Catholic Church, Catholic Bishop Pierre Pigneau de Behaine. Pigneau championed Nguyễn Ánh's cause to regain the throne to the French government and managed to recruit volunteer; however, that soon fell through. From 1789, Nguyễn Ánh was once again in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaophraya Thiphakorawong
Chaophraya Thiphakorawong (born Kham Bunnag (; ); 1 October 1813–1870) was a Thai aristocrat, government official, and scholar. Family Kham Bunnag was born in 1813 into the powerful Bunnag family, a powerful Thai noble family of Persian people, Persian ancestry.Bentiage, Bjorn, Eggert, Marion, Kramer, Hans-Martin, and Stefan Reichmuth (academic), Reichmuth, Stefan]"Religious Dynamics Under the Impacts of Imperialism and Colonialism: A Sourcebook"pp.63-4 His father, Prayurawongse, Tish Bunnag, was a kinsman of the royal family who later served as regent for King Mongkut (Rama IV), while his brother Somdet Chaophraya Sri Suriwongse, Chuang Bunnag would go on to serve as regent for King Chulalongkorn (Rama V). Government service Kham Bunnag entered the service of King Nangklao (Rama III), as an official in the Harbour Department. After the death of Rama III, the Bunnag family played a major role in selecting his successor. Kham's strong support for Mongkut earned him a role ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
