The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the forces of the French Union and Viet Minh. The French began an operation to insert, and support, their soldiers at Điện Biên Phủ, deep in the autonomous Tai Federation in northwest Tonkin.

2010年2月9日 · In November 1953, the French, weary of jungle warfare, occupied Dien Bien Phu, a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos. Although the Vietnamese rapidly cut off all roads to...

2009年10月27日 · The Battle of Dien Bien Phu, fought from March 13 to May 7, 1954, was a decisive Vietnamese military victory that brought an end to French colonial rule in Vietnam. In its wake came the...

2015年5月11日 · The Battle of Dien Bien Phu is seen as the decisive battle of the First Indochina War between French troops and the Viet Minh movement of Ho Chi Minh. This major confrontation occurred at Dien Bien Phu , a large heart-shaped valley located in the northwestern part of Vietnam, near the border with Laos.

The Viet Minh's victory in Dien Bien Phu heralded France's withdrawal from Indochina. Following the Geneva Agreements of 21 July 1954 that brought an end to the First Indochina War and recognised the democratic government of Vietnam, out of the 10,300 French soldiers taken prison in Dien Bien Phu, only 3,300 were returned to their families.

On May 7, 1954, the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region.

2025年1月2日 · Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the decisive engagement in the First Indochina War (1946–54). It consisted of a struggle between French and Viet Minh (Vietnamese Communist and nationalist) forces for control of a small mountain outpost on the Vietnamese border near Laos .

2024年4月5日 · Over 10,000 captured French soldiers from Dien Bien Phu, escorted by Vietnamese troops, walk to a prisoner-of-war camp only one out of three would find their way back home to France. In the mid to late 19th century, France undertook a thirty-year endeavor to colonize the entire Indochina region.

2024年1月21日 · French Withdrawal and the End of Colonial Rule: Dien Bien Phu spelled the end of French colonial aspirations in Vietnam. The defeat prompted the French to negotiate their withdrawal from Indochina and paved the way for the emergence of …

2006年6月12日 · On May 7, 1954, the end of the battle for the jungle fortress of Dien Bien Phu marked the end of French military influence in Asia, just as the sieges of Port Arthur, Corregidor and Singapore had, to a certain extent, broken the spell of Russian, American and British hegemony in Asia.