Gringo40s Tonkin range update

[EnclavedMicrostate]

Unfortunately I don't think anything exists in English on Yanling (and I haven't looked deeply enough to see if anything exists in Chinese) – what I know about this period I mostly know from Bradley Camp Davis' book on the Black and Yellow Flags.

[gringo]

EnclavedMicrostate
is this the.book...probably
the best one on the subject
my first port of call for a well
balanced overview on the subject
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[EnclavedMicrostate]

Yep, that's the one!

A friend of my dad's was, for over a decade, trying to get a book on the Sino-French War published, but it still has yet to see the light of day. A different friend – though not, it seems, a mutual one – happened to work for Hong Kong University Press when the manuscript was being passed around, and apparently he just wasn't willing to edit it down to a readable length...

[gringo]

i did wonder if it was that book.......the unedited book you mention
sounds fascinating..i would be more then happy to assist in having the
book published in the UK should the topic of conversation come up!.

[gringo]

French Torpedo boat Tonkin 1885 www.gringo40s.com
Regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[gringo]

Chaps...we have now fully restocked
our Spahis..for Tonkin 1885 range
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Rommel]

Received my paperback copy today, a little bit disapointed, total of 260-270 pages with only 190 pages text, à lot of pages with names and other. Now find the time to read.

[gringo]

Rommel my pleasure!
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

attached picture..surrender of the Black Flags!

[Rommel]

Maybe doying some heads on poles/pikes? When reading it is often mentioned by the Black Flags.

[Nogbad]

this is a good book on the war, too. Well written (which makes a change) by a British journalist - and baronet - who covered the war.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/FRANCE-TONGKING-NARRATIVE-CAMPAIGN-OCCUPATION-ebook/dp/B08H1D6329/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1702604640&sr=8-2

[gringo]

Nogbad
thanks for the heads up...not seen this tome
will add to my collection
regards
Ged
www.gringo40s.com

[Calvin59]

1885- Conquest of Indochina:
The 3rd squadron of the 1st spahis, as well as the 5/2nd spahis and the 1/3rd spahis reinforced by a squadron of the 1st regiment of African hunters, take the title of "Tonkin Cavalry Marching Regiment", placed under the orders of squadron leader O'Connor, and participate in the operations of the conquest until 1889.
The inscription:
"EXTREME-ORIENT, 1884-19885"
will be added to the standard. 1892- Dahomey Campaign:
Only a few elements detached from the 1st and 3rd Spahis participated in this campaign to reinforce the squadron of Senegalese Spahis with cadres: Squadron Leader Villiers and his orderly, Captains Fits-James and Cremieu-Foa, Lieutenants Legrand and Basset, 26 French non-commissioned officers, brigadiers, trumpeters and Spahis and a veterinarian. The whole is integrated into the Dodds column.
September 19: Battle of Dobga, at the Tchué ford.
October 4 to 6: The column is attacked by 10,000 Dahomeans. Two days of furious fighting at the end of which the attackers abandon the field.
October 14: Violent battle at the Koto source.
November 4: Storming of the city of Kano.
November 17: Capture of Abomey, capital of King Benhanzin.

BRIEF HISTORY of the 1st Algerian Spahis Regiment
(By Claude Girard)