Capture of Biên Hòa

Capture of Biên Hòa
	Part of Cochinchina campaign
Date	16 December 1861
Location	Biên Hòa, (now in Đồng Nai Province) Vietnam
Result	French and Spanish victory
Belligerents
French Empire; Spanish Empire Captaincy General of the Philippines; ;	Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
Louis-Adolphe Bonard ; Diego Domenech	Nguyen Ba Nghi
Strength
to be supplied	unknown
Casualties and losses
2 dead, several wounded	unknown

The Capture of Biên Hòa (Vietnamese: Biên Hòa) on 16 December 1861 was an important allied victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest. The war concluded with the establishment of the French colony of Cochinchina, a development that inaugurated nearly a century of French colonial dominance in Vietnam.

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