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Paris [1909], Picard. 3/4 Blue cloth over boards, all edge gilt, 324p., French text, 91 fine woodcut & text plates,very nice copy, clean, solid, preface by Pierre Loti,4th and best edition,24 x 33.5 cm., as usual,paper a bit 'toned' & foxed. . *** **** *** . . AN EARLY FRENCH COLONIAL PRIMARY RESOURCE FOR THEIR WAR . . . WITH SOUTH CHINA & TONKIN [VIETNAM] WARS . . . AND SINO-FRENCH WAR OF 1884: . * An excellent primary resource, with superb illustrations of the battles, personnel involved and 4 maps. . *** THE AUTHOR: EMILE DUBOC: [852-1935]: . He was he was a Commander French. He was involved with events in Tonkin & the China Seas between 1882-85, between the taking of Nam-dinh and the taking of Les Pescadores. . *** TONKIN CAMPAIGN: Tonkin Campaign: Capture of Bac Ninh, 12 March 1884 Date 1883-1886, Northern Vietnam, results was a French victory, bringing about a territorial change as a French protectorate over Tonkin and Annam within French Indochina. The belligerents were France, China and the Black Flag Army. . The Vietnamese strength was 35,000 soldiers by summer 1885, 50,000 Chinese soldiers, 10,000 Vietnamese soldiers and 3,000 Black Flag soldiers. Casualties and losses: 2,100 killed or wounded 10,000 killed or wounded. . * The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there. The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896. . * The arrival of Admiral Amédée Courbet in Along Bay in July 1883 with substantial naval reinforcements further strengthened the French position in Tonkin. Although the French were now in a position to consider taking the offensive against Liu Yongfu, they realized that military action against the Black Flag Army had to be accompanied by a political settlement with the Vietnamese court at Hue, if necessary by coercion, that recognized a French protectorate in Tonkin. . * On 30 July 1883 Admiral Courbet, General Bouët and François-Jules Harmand, the recently-appointed French civil commissioner-general for Tonkin, held a council of war at Haiphong. The three men agreed that Bouët should launch an offensive against the Black Flag Army in its positions around Phu Hoai on the Day River as soon as possible. They also noted that the Court of Hue was covertly aiding and abetting Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army, and that Prince Hoang was still in arms against the French at Nam Dinh. They therefore decided, largely on Harmand's urging, to recommend to the French government a strike against the Vietnamese defenses of Hue, followed by an ultimatum requiring the Vietnamese to accept a French protectorate over Tonkin or face immediate attack. . * The proposal was approved by the navy ministry on 11 August, and on 18 August several warships of Courbet's Tonkin Coasts naval division bombarded the Thuan An forts at the entrance to the Hue River. On 20 August, in the Battle of Thuan An, two companies of French marine infantry and the landing companies of three French warships went ashore and stormed the forts under heavy fire. During the afternoon the gunboats Lynx and Vipère forced a barrage at the entrance to the River of Perfumes, enabling the French to attack Hue directly if they chose. . * Signature of the Treaty of Hue, 25 August 1883. The Vietnamese asked for an armistice, and on 25 August Harmand dictated the Treaty of Hue to the c.…