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3 days ago · In April 1953, the Viet Minh's People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) invaded the northeastern part of what was still the French Protectorate of Laos with 40,000 troops commanded by General Võ Nguyên Giáp; including 2,000 Pathet Lao soldiers led by Souphanouvong. The objective of the two-pronged invasion was the capture of the royal capital of ...
- Pathet Lao
The Pathet Lao (Lao: ປະເທດລາວ, romanized: Pa thēt Lāo, lit....
- Savang Vatthana
French General Salan and Prince Savang in Luang Prabang, 4...
- 1967 Opium War
The 1967 Opium War took place in northwestern Laos between...
- Lao Royal Family
King Sisavang Vong was the founder of the modern family,...
- Pathet Lao
23 hours ago · The French colonial empire ( French: Empire colonial français) comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the " First French colonial empire ", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold ...
23 hours ago · The French protectorate of Laos at the time was ruled by King Sisavang Vong, who was crowned king in 1904. King Sisavang Vong was trained at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat in Saigon and at the Colonial School in Paris.
1 day ago · Colonization by the French from the late 19th to the mid-20th century infused Laos with a European cultural element, which intensified throughout the country’s embroilment in World War II and the Indochina wars, as well as a civil war of its own in the second half of the 20th century.
1 day ago · Laos was a French colony and my maternal grandfather served in the French Army from 1940 until 1953. Photos of him and his fellow soldiers are in a black and white French book “Les Bataillons ...
1 day ago · Vientiane, largest city and the capital of Laos, situated on a plain just northeast of the Mekong River. The city’s central river port location in a country relying heavily on rivers for transportation and its surrounding hinterland of intensive rice cultivation have made Vientiane the major.
1 day ago · Cambodia, about one-third the size of France and somewhat larger than the U.S. state of Missouri, is bordered to the west and northwest by Thailand, to the northeast by Laos, to the east and southeast by Vietnam, and to the southwest by the Gulf of Thailand.
