Battle of Dien Bien Phu
siege · 1954 AD
Battle of Dien Bien Phu, a siege recorded 1954 AD: its site mapped, cited to 1 source, on an interactive historical map you can move through time.
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At a glance
- Kind
- siege
- Date
- 13 March 1954 AD
- War
- First Indochina War
- Side 1
- Viet Minh — led by Võ Nguyên Giáp
- Side 2
- France — led by Christian de Castries
- Result
- Viet Minh victory; the end of French Indochina
Recorded boundaries
| Period | Control | Confidence | Evidence | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 AD | — | high confidence | no observation date recorded | — |
Each row is a snapshot the source recorded, not a continuous history. The period between two observations is an inference this atlas shows rather than hides.
Sources
- Tony Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity through the Twenty-first Century, (2007)