A day-long French assault took the Mã Cao fort of Hà Văn Mao, an outpost of the Ba Đình rising on the Cầu Chày river, leaving the Ba Đình insurgents too weak to hold together.
Battle
Battle of Mã Cao
- 2 February 1887
- Southeast Asia
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