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

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

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

Lê Văn Khôi revolt The Lê Văn Khôi revolt (, 1833–1835) was an important revolt in Nguyễn dynasty, 19th-century Vietnam, in which southern Vietnamese, Catholic Church in Vietnam, Vietnamese Catholics, Paris Foreign Missions Society, French Catholic mission ...

against Emperor

Minh Mạng Minh Mạng (), also known as 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 Nguyễ ...

, but died in 1834. As Duyệt was being prosecuted and his relatives condemned, Khôi had been imprisoned, but managed to escape on 10 May 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, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...

.Wook, p. 95. Khôi fortified himself into the

Citadel of Saigon The Citadel of Saigon ( ) also known as the Citadel of Gia Định (; Chữ Hán: 嘉定城 ) was a late 18th-century fortress that stood in Saigon (also known in the 19th century as Gia Định, now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam from its constructi ...

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''. p. 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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