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De Tham, also called Hoang Hoa Tham (born c. 1860, Yen The, northern Vietnam—died Jan. 10, 1913, near Yen The) was a Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
De Tham, also called Hoang Hoa Tham (born c. 1860, Yen The, northern Vietnam—died Jan. 10, 1913, near Yen The) was a Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
The French developed Tam Dao as a hill station in 1907, intending it as a popular retreat from the baking plains of the Red River summer, but closer to and more accessible from Hanoi than Sapa, further to the north on the Chinese frontier.<br/><br/> The name ‘Tam Dao’ derives from the ‘Three Islands’, which are in fact a line of three peaks, all around 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) in height, which can sometimes, but far from always, be seen rising above the surrounding clouds, like islands in a sea of mist. After the French left, in 1954, the resort fell on hard times, but has since been rediscovered. It appeals mainly to people from Hanoi, especially nature lovers who come at weekends to visit Tam Dao National Parkl.<br/><br/> Tam Dao was not always thus. When the French began their conquest of Tonkin in the last quarter of the 19th century, large parts of the north refused to submit. In particular an area around Yen The, some 40 km (25 miles) east of Tam Dao, became famous for the resistance offered by a local chieftain, Hoang Hoa Tham, better known as De Tham, and popularly celebrated as the ‘Tiger of Yen The’.
The French developed Tam Dao as a hill station in 1907, intending it as a popular retreat from the baking plains of the Red River summer, but closer to and more accessible from Hanoi than Sapa, further to the north on the Chinese frontier.<br/><br/> The name ‘Tam Dao’ derives from the ‘Three Islands’, which are in fact a line of three peaks, all around 1,400 metres (4,593 ft) in height, which can sometimes, but far from always, be seen rising above the surrounding clouds, like islands in a sea of mist. After the French left, in 1954, the resort fell on hard times, but has since been rediscovered. It appeals mainly to people from Hanoi, especially nature lovers who come at weekends to visit Tam Dao National Parkl.<br/><br/> Tam Dao was not always thus. When the French began their conquest of Tonkin in the last quarter of the 19th century, large parts of the north refused to submit. In particular an area around Yen The, some 40 km (25 miles) east of Tam Dao, became famous for the resistance offered by a local chieftain, Hoang Hoa Tham, better known as De Tham, and popularly celebrated as the ‘Tiger of Yen The’.
The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.<br/><br/> The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896.
De Tham, also called Hoang Hoa Tham (born c. 1860, Yen The, northern Vietnam—died Jan. 10, 1913, near Yen The) was a Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
De Tham, also called Hoang Hoa Tham (born c. 1860, Yen The, northern Vietnam—died Jan. 10, 1913, near Yen The) was a Vietnamese resistance fighter and enemy of French colonialism during the first two decades of French rule in Indochina.
The Tonkin Campaign (French: Campagne du Tonkin) was an armed conflict fought between June 1883 and April 1886 by the French against, variously, the Vietnamese, Liu Yongfu's Black Flag Army and the Chinese Guangxi and Yunnan armies to occupy Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and entrench a French protectorate there.<br/><br/> The campaign, complicated in August 1884 by the outbreak of the Sino-French War and in July 1885 by the Can Vuong nationalist uprising in Annam, which required the diversion of large numbers of French troops, was conducted by the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, supported by the gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla. The campaign officially ended in April 1886, when the expeditionary corps was reduced in size to a division of occupation, but Tonkin was not effectively pacified until 1896.