Haiphong Incident | |||||||||
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Part of the First Indochina War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Strength | |||||||||
1 heavy cruiser 3 avisos | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
20 to 29 killed | Unknown | ||||||||
2,000 to 6,000 Vietnamese people killed (overwhelmingly civilians),[1][2] 25,000 injured[3] |
History of Haiphong |
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The Haiphong Incident or the Haiphong Massacre occurred on November 23, 1946, when the French cruiser Suffren and several avisos[4] bombarded the Vietnamese coastal city of Haiphong, killing between 2,000 and 6,000 Vietnamese people.[1][2] The incident, also known as the Shelling of Haiphong, is thought of as the first armed clash in a series of events that would lead to the Battle of Hanoi on December 19, 1946, and with it the official outbreak of the First Indochina War.[5][6][7]