Capture of Biên Hòa

Capture of Biên Hòa
Part of Cochinchina campaign

Attack on the forts and dams of Biên Hòa by the French gunboats L'Avalanche, L'Alarme and Fusée (Le Monde illustré, 1862)
Date16 December 1861
Location
Biên Hòa, (now in Đồng Nai Province) Vietnam
Result Franco-Spanish victory
Belligerents
Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Louis-Adolphe Bonard
Diego Domenech		 Nguyen Ba Nghi
Strength
To be supplied Unknown
Casualties and losses
2 dead, several wounded Unknown

The Capture of Biên Hòa (Vietnamese: Biên Hòa) on 16 December 1861 was an important allied victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest. The war concluded with the establishment of the French colony of Cochinchina, a development that inaugurated nearly a century of French colonial dominance in Vietnam.

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