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Sunday, 9 November 2014

French transport Tarn transporting troops towards Haiphong, China according to the Dutch newspaper Java-bode dated 26 August 1884

An item reported that around five days ago 1.000 men of the French troops of the army at Tonkin were transported with the transport Tarn towards Haiphong for possible French actions in the future.(1)

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1. The Sino-French War between August 1884 and April 1885.