Garnier sailed down to Nam Định and took the provincial citadel, leaving the naval doctor Jules Harmand in charge with 25 sailors when he returned to Hanoi on 18 December.
Battle
French capture of Nam Định
- 10 December 1873
- Southeast Asia
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