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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