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The Battle of Ba Gia was a major battle that marked the beginning of the Viet Cong 's (VC) Summer Offensive of 1965, during the early phases of the Vietnam War. The battle took place in Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnam, between May 28–31, 1965. Following the victory of VC forces in the Battle of Bình Giã earlier in the year, the North ...
Quảng Ngãi is located 883 kilometres (549 mi) south of Hanoi and 838 kilometres (521 mi) north of Hồ Chí Minh City. The province has been historically populated with H're people and ethnic Kinh, and located on the coast.
At the Battle of Bạch Đằng River in 938 near Hạ Long Bay in northern Vietnam, the military force of the Viet-ruled domain of Tĩnh Hải quân, led by Ngô Quyền, a Viet lord, defeated the invading forces of the Chinese state of Southern Han and put an end to the Third Era of Northern Domination ( Chinese ruled Vietnam ). [3]
Sơn Tịnh (listen ⓘ) is a district of Quảng Ngãi province, in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, situated to the northeast of the town of Quảng Ngãi.The hamlet of Mỹ Lai of the Sơn Mỹ village, Tinh Khe commune was the site of the massacre of non-combatants committed by United States Army troops in 1968, today documented in Son My Memorial Park in Son My's sub-hamlet of ...
The Long Wall of Quang Ngai [1] ( Vietnamese: Trường lũy Quảng Ngãi ), [2] Truong luy, [3] or the Great Wall of Vietnam [4] is a 127.4-kilometre (79.2 mi) rampart extending from Vietnam 's Quảng Ngãi Province in the north to Binh Dinh Province in the south. The defensive wall was built by the Nguyễn dynasty as a demarcation line ...
Võ Văn Thưởng was born on 13 December 1970 in Hải Dương, North Vietnam. [7] His family left the South during the Vietnam War. In 1988, he majored in Marxist–Leninist Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ho Chi Minh City. [a] In 1992, he graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy in Marxism–Leninism.
Coordinates. 20°15′24″N 105°53′47″E. / 20.25667°N 105.89639°E / 20.25667; 105.89639. Location of Tràng An Scenic Landscape Complex in Vietnam. Tràng An is a scenic area near Ninh Bình, Vietnam renowned for its boat cave tours. [1] On 23 June 2014, at the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee in Doha, the Trang An ...
Ngô Quang Trưởng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, mostly in the Airborne Brigade. In 1966, Trưởng commanded a division for the first time after he was ...