- Tuyen Quang
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footnotes =Tuyen Quang audio|Tuyen Quang.ogg|pronunciation is a town in
Vietnam , the capital ofTuyen Quang Province .The French post at Tuyen Quang was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the
French Foreign Legion during theSino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885). TheSiege of Tuyen Quang is still remembered as one of the Legion's most celebrated feats of arms, and is commemorated in the first verse of "Le Boudin", its principal marching song.As a town in
French Indochina , Tuyen Quang served as a garrison. During theFirst Indochina War , theViet Minh made the Legionnaires surrender at the memorial to the Battle of Tuyen Quang.
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