| Battle of Palan | |||||||
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| Part of the Tonkin Campaign | |||||||
 French artillerymen at Palan bring up their guns | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 French Colonial Empire |
 Black Flag Army Nguyễn dynasty | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Alexandre-Eugène Bouët |
Liu Yongfu | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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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).[1]
- ^ Thomazi, Conquête, 166–7; Histoire militaire, 64–6