Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander of the French forces, who lost his only son (Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny
) in the battle.
Date
May 30 – June 18, 1951
Location
French Indochina
Result
French victory
Territorial changes
Red River Delta remains under French control
Belligerents
French Union
France
State of Vietnam
Việt Minh
Commanders and leaders
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Strength
3 regimental combat teams 2 para battalions 1 dinassaut Local Catholic militia
Three divisions
Casualties and losses
107 killed, 289 wounded,[1] 189 missing Few hundreds
Western estimates: 9,000 killed[2][3][4] 1,000 captured[2] Việt Minh figures: 546 killed, 1,700 wounded, 280 missing[5]
v
t
e
First Indochina War
Prelude
Masterdom
Haiphong
1946-1950
Hanoi
Cao Bằng
Papillon
Léa
Ceinture
Đông Khê
RC4
1951-1952
Vĩnh Yên
Mạo Khê
Đáy River
1st Nghĩa Lộ
Hòa Bình
2nd Nghĩa Lộ
Lorraine
Nà Sản
Bretagne
1953
Adolphe
Upper Laos campaign
Muong Khoua
Hirondelle
Camargue
Brochet
Mouette
Castor
Pollux
1954
Atlante
Đắk Đoa
Điện Biên Phủ
Vulture
Condor
Mang Yang Pass
The Battle of the Day River (French: bataille du Day) took place between late May and early June 1951, around the Day River Delta in the Gulf of Tonkin. Part of the First Indochina War, the battle was the first conventional campaign of Võ Nguyên Giáp, and saw his Việt Minh People's Army of Vietnam (VPA) forces tackle the Catholic-dominated region of the Delta in order to break its resistance to Việt Minh infiltration. On the back of two defeats at similar ventures through March and April that year, Giap led three divisions in a pattern of guerrilla and diversion attacks on Ninh Bình, Nam Định, Phủ Lý and Phat Diem beginning on May 28 which saw the destruction of commando François, a naval commando.[clarification needed]
The French army, under Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, who lost his son in the first day of the battle at Ninh Bình, mobilised three mobile groups (groupements mobiles, similar to regimental combat teams) and two paratrooper battalions as well as one dinassaut,[6] and the ebb and flow of captured and retaken positions continued until Giap's supply lines were cut around June 6. His forces, moving in large numbers and during daylight, were vulnerable to French firepower and to French ground forces supported by a friendly local Catholic militia. The Việt Minh army units were forced into withdrawing between June 10 and June 18. The Western's sources estimated Việt Minh lost 1,000 prisoners to the French and 9,000 casualties.[7][8] Việt Minh reported they were suffered 546 killed, 1,700 wounded, 280 missing[9]
^Gras, p. 408
^ abLogevall 2012, p. 272.
^Smith 2015, p. 74.
^Windrow 2011, p. 80.
^"Tóm tắt các chiến dịch trong kháng chiến chống Pháp".
^Gras, Histoire de la Guerre d'Indochine, p. 407
^Windrow, p. 114-115.
^Fall, Street Without Joy, p. 45.
^"Tóm tắt các chiến dịch trong kháng chiến chống Pháp".
and 26 Related for: Battle of the Day River information
TheBattleofthe Kalka River was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities...
TheBattleof Blood River (16 December 1838) was fought on the bank ofthe Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between 464 Voortrekkers...
TheBattleofthe Washita River (also called Battleofthe Washita or the Washita Massacre) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong...
Operation Overlord was the codename for theBattleof Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful liberation of German-occupied Western...
Battleof Britain Day, 15 September 1940, is theday on which a large-scale aerial battle in theBattleof Britain took place. In June 1940, the Wehrmacht...
Meriç Muharebesi in tr. Second Battleof Maritsa) took place at the Maritsa River near the village of Chernomen (present-day Ormenio, Greece) on 26 September...
September. Thebattle took place west of Warsaw, near the Bzura River. It began as a Polish counter-offensive, which gained initial success, but the Germans...
Caliphate. Thebattle consisted of a series of engagements that lasted for six days in August 636, near the Yarmouk River (also called Hieromyces River), along...
TheBattleofthe Silarius River was the final, decisive action ofthe Roman Servile Wars. It occurred near the mouth of modern Sele River, southern Campania...
TheBattleof Stones River, also known as the Second Battleof Murfreesboro, was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee...
The Second Battleofthe Piave River (or Battleofthe Solstice), fought between 15 and 23 June 1918, was a decisive victory for the Italian Army against...
TheBattleof Bannockburn (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Allt nam Bànag or Blàr Allt a' Bhonnaich) was fought on 23–24 June 1314, between the army of Robert the...
Scotland in 1689. Thebattle was fought across theRiver Boyne close to the town of Drogheda in the Kingdom of Ireland, modern-day Republic of Ireland, and...
TheBattleof Talas (Chinese: 怛羅斯戰役 Dáluósī zhànyì; Arabic: معركة نهر طلاس Maʿrakat nahr Ṭalās) was an armed confrontation between the Abbasid Caliphate...
Global Information
Việt Minh
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Local Catholic militia