Battle of Ky Hoa

Battle of Kỳ Hòa
Part of Cochinchina campaign
DateFebruary 1861; 163 years ago (1861-02)
Location
Kỳ Hòa Cidatel, Saigon, Southern Vietnam
10°46′01″N 106°40′01″E / 10.767°N 106.667°E / 10.767; 106.667
Result French and Spanish victory
Belligerents
Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Second French Empire Léonard Charner
Second French Empire Élie de Vassoigne
Nguyễn Tri Phương
Phạm Thế Hiển [vi]
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

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.

  1. ^ a b Chapuis (2000), p. 49.