Cần Vương movement
| Cần Vương movement | |||||||
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Cần Vương edict written in Classical Chinese | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Vietnamese resistance |
France Nguyễn dynasty | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Hàm Nghi (POW) Tôn Thất Thuyết Nguyễn Văn Tường Đinh Công Tráng Phan Đình Phùng Hoàng Hoa Thám X |
General Roussel de Courcy General Léon Prud'homme Léon Metzinger Đồng Khánh Hoàng Cao Khải | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown, High |
Siege of Ba Đình: 19 soldiers killed 45 wounded | ||||||
| ~40,000 Christian civilians killed | |||||||
| Cần Vương movement | |
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| Vietnamese name | |
| Vietnamese | Phong trào Cần Vương |
| Chữ Hán | 風潮勤王 |
The Cần Vương (Vietnamese: [kʌn˨˩ vɯəŋ˧], chữ Hán: 勤王, lit. 'Aid the King') movement was a large-scale Vietnamese insurgency between 1885 and 1896 against French colonial rule. Its objective was to expel the French and re-instate deposed emperor Hàm Nghi as the leader of a restored independent Vietnam. The movement lacked a coherent national structure and consisted mainly of regional leaders who attacked French troops in their own provinces. The movement initially prospered as there were only a few French garrisons in Annam, but failed after the French recovered from the surprise of the insurgency and poured troops into Annam from bases in Tonkin and Cochinchina. The insurrection in Annam spread and flourished in 1886, reached its climax the following year and gradually faded out by 1889.