Haiphong incident

Haiphong Incident
Part of the First Indochina War

Haiphong on a map
DateNovember 23, 1946 (1946-11-23)
Location
Result

French victory

Territorial
changes
French rule restored in Haiphong
Belligerents
French Fourth Republic French Republic North Vietnam Việt Minh
Commanders and leaders
French Fourth Republic Pierre-Louis Debès Unknown
Strength
1 heavy cruiser
3 avisos
Unknown
Casualties and losses
20 to 29 killed Unknown
Around 6,000 Vietnamese civilians killed,[1] 25,000 injured[2]

The Haiphong Incident or the Haiphong Massacre occurred on November 23, 1946, when the French cruiser Suffren and several avisos[3] bombarded the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong, killing some 6,000 Vietnamese people.[1] The incident, also known as the Shelling of Haiphong, is thought of as the first armed clash in a series of events that would lead to the Battle of Hanoi on December 19, 1946, and with it the official outbreak of the First Indochina War.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Cirillo, Roger (2015). The Shape of Battles to Come. Louisville: University Press of Kentucky. p. 187. ISBN 978-0813165752.
  2. ^ Young, Marilyn B., The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990, Harper Perennial, 1991, p.18.
  3. ^ Vaïse, Maurice (2000). L'Armée française dans la guerre d'Indochine (1946-1954): Adaptation ou inadaptation. p. 276.
  4. ^ "French Vietnam: A War of Illusions". Victorious Insurgencies: Four Rebellions That Shaped Our World. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 69–140. Web.
  5. ^ Devillers, Philippe, and Jean Lacouture. End of a War: Indochina, 1954. London: Pall Mall Press, 1969.
  6. ^ "Haiphong, Shelling of". Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Ed. Spencer C. Tucker. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011. Credo Reference. Web. 4 Feb. 2016.

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