Qualla: Siege of Tourane https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:53 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/g/siege-of-tourane-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Siege of Tourane https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane Siege of Tourane: Introduction https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane/ Photo credit Vietnamese anonymous, Public domain. The French admiral's surrender demand was carried ashore by a staff officer and laid at the gate of Fort de l'Aiguade. No response came within the stipulated two hours. Rigault de Genouilly ordered the fleet to open fire, raising the Tricolor at his flagship's mainmast and a Spanish flag at the mizzenmast. By nightfall on 1 September 1858, the Tiên Sa peninsula was in allied hands. It was an overwhelming tactical success. It was also the beginning of an eighteen-month humiliation.

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/g/siege-of-tourane-wp/w6ug-siege-of-tourane-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Siege of Tourane: Why Tourane https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane/ Photo credit Pierre Louis Pierson, Public domain. The road to Tourane began with an execution. In 1857, Vietnamese emperor Tự Đức had two Spanish Catholic missionaries put to death — neither the first nor the last such incident in a country where the Nguyễn court viewed missionary activity as a destabilizing foreign intrusion. F...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/g/siege-of-tourane-wp/w6ug-siege-of-tourane-why-tourane.mp3 0:06 2 full Siege of Tourane: The Capture and the Trap https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The allied fleet arrived off Tourane Bay at nightfall on 31 August 1858. At dawn the next morning, the warships — the 50-gun frigate Némésis, two corvettes, five steam gunboats, and a Spanish dispatch vessel — took up positions facing the Vietnamese forts. When no response came t...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/g/siege-of-tourane-wp/w6ug-siege-of-tourane-the-capture-and-the-trap.mp3 0:06 3 full Siege of Tourane: Disease as the True Adversary https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane/ Photo credit Vietnamese anonymous, Public domain. Rigault de Genouilly could win battles but could not break the siege. He left for Saigon in February 1859 with the bulk of his forces, leaving only a small garrison at Tourane under Capitaine de Vaisseau Thoyon. He returned in April, mounted two successful assaults on Vietnamese ...

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]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/u/g/siege-of-tourane-wp/w6ug-siege-of-tourane-disease-as-the-true-adversary.mp3 0:06 4 full Siege of Tourane: Evacuation and Its Consequences https://qualla.com/siege-of-tourane/ Photo credit Vietnamese anonymous, Public domain. By autumn 1859, Rigault de Genouilly's conduct of the campaign had drawn criticism and he was recalled to France. His replacement, Rear Admiral François Page, disembarked at Tourane in October and immediately offered peace terms to the Vietnamese: protection for Christians, Frenc...

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