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Battle of Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dien Bien Phu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dien Bien Phu is a town in northwestern Vietnam. It is the capital of Dien Bien province, and is known for the events there during the First Indochina War, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, during which t...
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However, instead of making a massive frontal assault, Giap choose to surround Dien Bien Phu and ordered his men to dig a trench that encircled the French troops. ... By the time the battle was ready to start, Giap had 70,000 soldiers surrounding Dien Bien Phu, five times the number of French troops enclosed within.
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Though a momentous event in recent history, the battle of Dien Bien Phu remains misunderstood in the West as most pertinent accounts are speculative and plagued by erroneous assumptions.
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(5:204) The victory on the battlefield was lost at Geneva as far as the Viet Minh were concerned; however, they did not give up on their goal of unifying Vietnam. The Viet Minh defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu in a set-piece battle which, in essence, amounted to beating the French at their own game.
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; The Battle of Dien Bien Phu -- The last war from the Indochina War that ended France's colonial era. May 07, 2004 - Friday; Culture : French History 101 : : ... The Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Ðiện Biên Phủ) occurred in 1954 between Viet Minh forces under Vo Nguyen Giap and French airborne and Foreign Legion forces.
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