Siege of Tourane

Siege of Tourane
Part of Cochinchina Campaign

French warships off Tourane, September 1858
Date1 September 1858 – 22 March 1860
Location
Quảng Nam, Trung Kỳ, Đại Nam
16°04′00″N 108°14′00″E / 16.0666°N 108.2333°E / 16.0666; 108.2333
Result Vietnamese victory
Belligerents
Đại Nam
Commanders and leaders
Second French Empire Rigault de Genouilly
Second French Empire François Page		 Nguyễn Tri Phương
Lê Đình Lý [vi]
Đào Trí [vi]
Ông Ích Khiêm[1]
Strength
1 50-gun frigate
2 12-gun corvettes
5 steam-gunboats
5 steam transports
1 despatch vessel
1,000 French marine infantry
550 Spanish infantry
450 Filipino chasseurs Tagals		 2,000 men, rising to 10,000 men
Casualties and losses
128 killed and wounded, several hundred deaths from cholera 1,000+ killed[2]

The siege of Tourane (September 1858–March 1860) was a Vietnamese victory during the Cochinchina campaign, a punitive campaign against the Vietnamese launched by France and Spain in 1858. A joint Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly captured Tourane (modern Da Nang) in September 1858, but was then besieged in the city by the Vietnamese and forced eventually to evacuate it in March 1860.[3]

  1. ^ "Ông Ích Khiêm - a notable general with strategic vision". baodanang.vn. Retrieved 26 March 2022.
  2. ^ "Hòa Vang Cemetery Relic". baotangdanang.vn. 31 May 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
  3. ^ Thomazi, Conquête, 29–31 and 38–41; Histoire militaire, 24–5 and 26–7