loan

subject: History of French Indo-China [print this page]

Author: Basinexplorer
Author: Basinexplorer

For over two-thousand years the people of Vietnam have fought off invading armies from ancient Chinese rulers to present-day super powers all the while struggling to maintain their indigenous identity and culture.

One such super power was France. And from 17th century with the establishment of Jesuit missions to 1954 and the battle of Dien Bien Phu the French had influence on Indochina.

French Indochina was formed in October 1887 from the territories of Annam, Tonkin, Cochinchina, which all together form modern-day Vietnam, and the Kingdom of Cambodia- Laos was added after the Franco-Siamese War. European involvement in Viet Nam was confined to trade during the 18th century, though in 1787 Pigneau de Bhaine, a French Catholic priest, petitioned the French government and organized French military volunteers to aid Nguy?n nh in retakinglands lost to the Ty S?n. His troops fought in the service of France until 1802. France was heavily involved in Vietnam in the 19th century; protecting the work of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in the country was often presented as a justification. As time went on the Nguy?n Dynasty increasingly saw Catholic missionaries as a threat to their way of life.

Territorial conflict in the Indochinese peninsula led to the Franco-Siamese War of 1893. In 1893 the French authorities in Indochina used border disputes, followed by the Paknam naval incident, to provoke a crisis. Soon after, French gunboats appeared at Bangkok, and demanded the cession of Lao territories east of the Mekong and got it.

The French continued to pressure Siam and in 19061907 they manufactured another crisis. This time Siam had to concede French control of territory on the west bank of the Mekong opposite Luang Prabang and around Champasak in southern Laos, as well as western Cambodia. France also occupied the western part of Chantaburi. Read more at: The History TempleAbout the Author:

From the time of the Pharaohs I, Seti, have chronicled the lives of man.

Follow me on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/TempleScribe

and on my blog at:

http://historytemple.blogspot.com/

welcome to loan (http://www.yloan.com/)