Nguyễn Thành Phương was a

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietna ...

general under the

Cao Đài Caodaism (; ; ; ) or Cao Đài is a Vietnamese monotheistic syncretic religion that retains many elements from Vietnamese folk religion such as ancestor worship, as well as "ethical precepts from Confucianism, occult practices from Taoism, theo ...

sect and was in command of 25,000 soldiers.Serguei A. Blagov ''Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and Its Leap Into Modernity'' 2001 Page 102 "Later in February 10,000 Caodaist troops under Nguyễn Thành Phương Were integrated into the National army.5 In February 1955, Bảo Ðại sent his cousin Vĩnh Cảnh to Saigon with instructions to urge upon the sects the need for unity.

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