Dien Bien Phu- The Great Victory- Viva General Giap

The following year, the important Battle of Dien Bien Phu was fought between the Việt Minh (led by Vo Nguyen Giap), and the United States-backed French Union (led by General Navarre, successor to General Raoul Salan). The siege of the French garrison lasted fifty-seven days, from 5:30PM on March 13 to 5:30PM on May 7, 1954. The southern outpost or fire base of the camp, Isabelle, did not follow the cease-fire order and fought until the next day at 01:00AM; a few hours before the long-scheduled Geneva Meeting's Indochina conference involving the United States, the United Kingdom, the French Union and the Soviet Union.

The battle was significant beyond the valleys of Dien Bien Phu. Vo Nguyen Giap's victory ended major French involvement in Indochina and led to the accords which partitioned Vietnam into North and South. Eventually, these conditions inspired American involvement in the Vietnam War. The battle of Điện Biên Phủ is described by historians as "the first time that a non-European colonial independence movement had evolved through all the stages from guerrilla bands to a conventionally organized and equipped army able to defeat a modern Western occupier in pitched battle

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[BAIYUE1]

@pzmause

France and Viet Nam is friend now? Right?

[tuanmapmap]

Hào khí của cha anh chúng ta mãi mãi trường tồn. Tinh thần đó, ý chí đó, tấm lòng đó và lịch sử đó vẫn mãi vương vấn đâu đây... Là người Việt Nam phải biết tự hào... Sẵn sàng hy sinh tất cả để bảo vệ những gì mình yêu quí, những gì thiêng liêng của đất mẹ... Việt Nam ơi !!! sáng ngời muôn thuở.

[FrancoPhobe001]

@DeRoquencourt , We, the VietNamese teach you a beautiful lesson at Dien Bien Phu , dirty French frog want to be a cow, shut your dirty mouth up, French loser

[DeRoquencourt]

@butteredASS Dear butteredass I remind you that you ow us your independence. Yorktown and Chesapeake victories were french ...

[DeRoquencourt]

@butteredbread100 Totally superior dear asshole ... following Dien Bien Phu O dickhead all attacks against both Laos and the Delta failed :-) and we've only 30000 french europeans on site against more than 560 000 americans in 1968 ... That's history dear asshole read books

[butteredbread100]

@DeRoquencourt ??? you guys dont have a confirmed victory and the only way you dont completely get obliterated is when america helps out your sorry asses superior france eh?