The Vietnamese royal website deplores a Texas-based foundation which sells miniature medals of the Imperial Order of the Dragon of Annam (with ribbon) for $38 plus postage.
The French relied on differences in dialect and political fragmentation to deny there was any such thing as a Vietnamese people, breaking the country up into Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchine.
Ferry's support of various colonial expeditions sometimes behind the back of the Chamber gave France protectorates over Tunisia and in Vietnam (Annam and Tonkin), a large new colony in the Congo basin, and an initial foothold in Madagascar.
He was a proponent of French colonial policy in Indochina and was appointed governor general in Annam and Tonkin (1886).
Against the French occupation of Tongkin in 1882 83 and France's proclamation of protectorate status for Vietnam (under the name of Annam) in the Treaty of Hue of August 1883, the Qing deployed its army in the northern frontier of Tongkin.
1870 Hue, Vietnam 1947 Algeria Ham Nghi, original name Ung Lich (born 1870, Hue, Vietnam died 1947, Algeria), emperor of Annam (now Vietnam) in 1884 86 who rejected the role of a figurehead in the French colonial regime.
While in Southeast Asia he organized the Young Annam League (the precursor of the Viet Minh, or Viet Nam League for Independence), became a leading writer and pamphleteer, and founded a newspaper, L'Indochine Enchaînée ("Indochina in Chains").
At various times tribute was demanded of the peripheral kingdoms: from Myanmar (Burma), from Annam and Champa in mainland Southeast Asia, from Java (now in Indonesia), and from Japan.
Ham Nghi, original name Ung Lich (born 1870, Hue, Vietnam died 1947, Algeria), emperor of Annam (now Vietnam) in 1884 86 who rejected the role of a figurehead in the French colonial regime.
Then, more than 60 years old, he embarked on a series of campaigns that extended the borders of the Khmer empire farther than ever before into Malaya, Burma, and Annam.
Down to the end of the century, the Mongol armies remained on the offensive, invading Japan (1281), Annam (modern Vietnam), and Burma (1285 87), and distant Java (1292 93).
