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2,000. 6,000. Casualties and losses. 9 killed. 46 wounded. unknown. The Battle of Đồng Đăng (23 February 1885) was an important French victory during the Sino-French War. [1] It is named after the town of Đồng Đăng, then in northern Tonkin, close to the border between China and Vietnam.
Casualties and losses. 33 dead [1] 264 wounded. 1,000+ dead [2] 2,000+ wounded [2] The siege of Tuyên Quang was an important confrontation between the French and the Chinese armies in Tonkin (northern Vietnam) during the Sino-French War (August 1884 – April 1885). A French garrison of 619 men, including two companies of the French Foreign ...
Legislative elections were held in France on 4 and 18 October 1885. Following the deaths of Napoléon, Prince Imperial and the Comte de Chambord, the monarchists and Bonapartists formed a conservative electoral alliance under the leadership of the Baron de Mackau. In the first round of the election, the conservatives won 176 seats, whereas the ...
Southampton Football Club este un club de fotbal din Southampton, Hampshire, Anglia care evoluează în Championship, al doilea eșalon al fotbalului englez. Echipa este poreclită The Saints . Fondat în 1885, clubul s-a alăturat Ligii de Sud sub numele de Southampton St. Mary's în 1894, renunțând la St. Mary's din nume trei ani mai ...
Biography. Plate affixed on Édouard Fournier's Parisian home, at 13 rue des Saints-Pères. Born into a locksmiths artist family, he studied at the Collège d'Orléans then devoted entirely to literary work. After a first play in 1841, and some feuilletons published in the newspaper Le Loiret in 1842, he published a large number of historical ...
The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan is the title of three works by Eugène Delacroix, produced in 1826, 1835 and 1856. They all show a scene from Lord Byron 's 1813 poem The Giaour, with the Giaour ambushing and killing Hassan, the Pasha, before retiring to a monastery. [1] Giaour had fallen in love with Leila, a slave in Hassan's harem, but ...
She was paid off in May 1892 into Fleet reserve, recommissioning in July 1892 into the Mediterranean Fleet. On 22 June 1893, she collided with and sank the battleship HMS Victoria with 358 deaths, including Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon . In 1897, Camperdown arrived off Crete to join the International Squadron, a multinational force made up of ...