Siege of Tourane
| Siege of Tourane | |||||||
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| Part of the Cochinchina Campaign | |||||||
French warships off Tourane, September 1858 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Đại Nam | |||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Rigault de Genouilly François Page |
Nguyễn Tri Phương Lê Đình Lý Đào Trí | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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1 50-gun frigate 2 12-gun corvettes 5 steam-gunboats 5 steam transports 1 despatch vessel 1,000 French marine infantry 550 Spanish infantry 450 Filipino chasseurs Tagals | 2,000 men, rising to 10,000 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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128 killed or wounded ~300 deaths from cholera | 1,000+ killed | ||||||
The siege of Tourane (September 1858–March 1860) was a Vietnamese victory during the Cochinchina campaign, a punitive campaign against the Vietnamese launched by France and Spain in 1858. A joint Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly captured Tourane (modern Da Nang) in September 1858, but was then besieged in the city by the Vietnamese and forced eventually to evacuate it in March 1860.