Battle of Kỳ Hòa | |||||||
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Part of Cochinchina campaign | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Nguyễn dynasty | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Léonard Charner Élie de Vassoigne |
Nguyễn Tri Phương Phạm Thế Hiển | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
8,000 troops (3,500 reinforced by Leonard Charner) 70 warships | 10,000–21,000[1] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 killed, 213 wounded.[1] | 300 dead, rest of the army routed or captured |
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The Battle of Kỳ Hòa (Vietnamese: Trận Đại đồn Chí Hòa) on 24 and 25 February 1861 was an important French 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.