Sơn Tây campaign
| Sơn Tây campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the Tonkin campaign | |||||||
Map of Sơn Tây, December 1883 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| France |
Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty Qing dynasty | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Amédée Courbet |
Liu Yongfu Hoàng Kế Viêm Tang Zhiong | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 9,000 soldiers, 6 gunboats |
3,000 Black Flag soldiers 7,000 Vietnamese soldiers 2,000 Chinese soldiers | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 83 killed, 320 wounded | 900 killed, around 1,000 wounded | ||||||
The Sơn Tây campaign (11 December 1883 to 17 December 1883) was a campaign fought by the French to capture the strategically important city of Sơn Tây in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) from Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and allied contingents of Vietnamese and Chinese troops. The campaign was one of several clashes between the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps and the Black Flag Army during the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886), and took place during the period of undeclared hostilities that preceded the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885).