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Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 - 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a significant and famous role during the Japanese Boshin War, also known as the Japanese Revolution. Brunet had been sent to Japan with the French military mission of 1867, and when the Shogun was defeated, he had an important role in the founding of the unrecognised Republic of Ezo.<br/><br/> After the fall of the Ezo Republic in 1869 and the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brunet fled from Japan and returned home to France, where he was promoted to General and later became Chief of Staff to the French Minister of War in 1898. Brunet was also a talented painter who left numerous depictions of his travels in Japan and Mexico.
Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 - 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a significant and famous role during the Japanese Boshin War, also known as the Japanese Revolution. Brunet had been sent to Japan with the French military mission of 1867, and when the Shogun was defeated, he had an important role in the founding of the unrecognised Republic of Ezo.<br/><br/> After the fall of the Ezo Republic in 1869 and the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brunet fled from Japan and returned home to France, where he was promoted to General and later became Chief of Staff to the French Minister of War in 1898. Brunet was also a talented painter who left numerous depictions of his travels in Japan and Mexico.
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.