Capture of Vĩnh Long

Capture of Vĩnh Long
	Part of the Cochinchina campaign
Date	22 March 1862
Location	Vinh Long, Mekong Delta region in southern Vietnam
Result	French and Spanish victory
Belligerents
French Empire; Spanish Empire Captaincy General of the Philippines; ;	Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
	Louis-Adolphe Bonard; Lieutenant-Colonel Reboul; Carlos Palanca y Gutierrez
Strength
	2 despatch vessels; 9 gunboats; 700 French infantry; 300 Spanish infantry

The Capture of Vĩnh Long (Vietnamese: Vĩnh Long) on 22 March 1862 was the last major allied victory of 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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