Siege of Saigon

Siege of Saigon
	Part of Cochinchina campaign
	; French warships off Saigon, February 1859
Date	18 February 1859 – 25 February 1861
Location	Gia Định, Nam Kỳ, Đại Nam
Result	French and Spanish victory
Belligerents
French Empire; Spanish Empire	Đại Nam
Commanders and leaders
Rigault de Genouilly	Vũ Duy Ninh; Trương Văn Uyển

The siege of Saigon, a two-year siege of the city by the Vietnamese after its capture on 17 February 1859 by a Franco-Spanish flotilla under the command of the French admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly, was one of the major events of the Cochinchina campaign (1858–1862). Saigon was of great strategic importance, both as the key food-producing area of Vietnam and as the gateway to Cochinchina.^[2]

^ "If the old citadel had remained, Gia Định would not have easily fallen on February 17, 1959". tuoitre.vn. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
^ Goldstein, 95

[1] "If the old citadel had remained, Gia Định would not have easily fallen on February 17, 1959". tuoitre.vn. 17 February 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2022.

[2] Goldstein, 95

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