Battle of Palan

Battle of Palan
Part of the Tonkin Campaign

French artillerymen at Palan bring up their guns
Date1 September 1883
Location
near Hanoi, Northern Vietnam
Result French tactical victory, strategically inconclusive
Belligerents
French Colonial Empire Black Flag Army
Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Alexandre-Eugène Bouët Liu Yongfu
Strength
900 French marine infantry and Cochinchinese riflemen
450 Yellow Flag auxiliaries
1 artillery battery
6 gunboats		 1,200 Black Flag soldiers
3,000 Vietnamese soldiers
Casualties and losses
16 dead, 43 wounded 60 Chinese dead (by body count), but most probably several hundred dead and wounded

The Battle of Palan (1 September 1883) was one of several clashes between the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps and Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army during the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886).

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