CHRONOLOGY OF BATTLES IN VIETNAM

– still under construction as at March 2007

Co – Loa	41AD	Ma Yunn and 20,000 Chinese bt Queen Trung Trac of Vietnam, and her sister
Linyi	446	Tan Hezhi hAD dancing lions mADe of bamboo and paper, with which he frightened off the enemy elephants and took the Champa capital
Dientriet Lake	555	Chinese bt Ly Bi
Hong river	555	Chinese bt Ly Bi
Bach Dang river	938	Nr Haiphong, Vietnamese Bt Southern Han and established independence
Bach Dang	981	Vietnamese vs Song
Somesvara	1075	Champa bt Khmers
Bach Dang	1288	Vietnamese Bt Yuan [Mongols]Nr Haiphong
Vijaya	1377	Champa Bt Viet
Nr Hanoi	1425	Viet elephants bt Chinese column sent to the relief of Hanoi
Tot Dong	1426	West of Hanoi
Bac-le	1884-5	Chinese and French troops were engaged in a many -sided struggle with two Imperial Vietnamese pretenders, with the Black, Red and Yellow Flag rebels (refugees from failed rebellions in western China), and with pirates on the Red River.
French Indochina War	1882-83
Zhennan Pass/ Bang Bo	1885	Qing bt French invaders north of Lang Son, scene of many battles.
French Indochina War	1940s-50s	Giap fought his legendary campaign from Yunnan into the Red River valley.
Dien Bien Phu	Mar-May 1954	French V. Viet Minh - Isolated French paratroop force besieged and destroyed in Giap’s classic guerilla / conventional Tongking campaign.
Civil War	1955
Indo-Chinese Skirmishing	1960
The Vietnam war	1963-75	Vietnam War ops database
Nam Dong	6 Jul 1964	South Vietnamese/Nung/Us V. Vietcong
Plei Me	19-28 Oct 1965	South Vietnamese/Us V. North Vietnamese/Vietcong
Chu-Pong-Ia Drang River	14-20 Nov 1965	Us V. North Vietnamese
Van Tuong Peninsula	30-31 Aug 1965	US V. Vietcong
An Lao Valley	Jan-Feb 1966	Us/South Vietnamese V. Vietcong
Hill 488	13-16 Jun 1966	Us V. North Vietnamese/Vietcong
Tou Morang	7-13 Jun 1966	North Vietnamese V. Us/South Vietnamese
Iron triangle	1967	The IT was the area NW of Saigon out to Cu-Chi, honeycombed with Vietcong tunnels and perhaps the most bombed area in history.
Tet Offensive	30 Jan 1968	Us/South Vietnamese V. Vietcong
Hoang Sa	1974
Fall Of Saigon	1975
Xuan Loc	1975
Sino-Vietnamese War	1979	Lang Son was the scene of much fighting; the battle hardened Vietnamese initially hAD the better of it.
Laoshan peak	1986

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