Annam

Subsection French Admirals in Indochina.

There is a map of Indochina comprising Siam, Cambodia, Cochin China, Annam, Laos, Tonkin, and the Malay States on page three hundred and thirteen.

French empire builders of the eighteenth century had India almost within their grasp, only to lose it to England.

But French imperialists of the nineteenth century sought and found compensation, relatively small compensation, in the great peninsula which juts down east of India The beginnings of French empire in this region are traced back by French historians to the reign of Louis XIV, when a French missionary persuaded the Emperor of Annam to seek the aid of France in his wars, with the result that in 1787 a treaty was signed giving France a bay and an island on the Indo-Chinese coast.

The treaty was allowed, however, to become a dead letter.

The new French empire in the east was founded by French admirals during the reign of Napoleon III.

To avenge the murder of a Spanish missionary bishop in 1857, a Franco-Spanish naval expedition was sent against the Emperor of Annam, Tao Duc, who ruled the eastern part of the Indo-Chinese peninsula.

So earnest was the French admiral in his indignation at the outrage upon the Spanish missionary, the expedition only ended with the signature of a treaty June 4, 1862, ceding to France three provinces of Cochin China, over which the Annamese emperor had been suzerain, and giving French merchants the right to ascend from Cochin China up the great Mekong River.

Subsection French Admirals in Indochina.

There is a map of Indochina comprising Siam, Cambodia, Cochin China, Annam, Laos, Tonkin, and the Malay States on page three hundred and thirteen.

French empire builders of the eighteenth century had India almost within their grasp, only to lose it to England.

But French imperialists of the nineteenth century sought and found compensation, relatively small compensation, in the great peninsula which juts down east of India.

The beginnings of French empire in this region are traced back by French historians to the reign of Louis XIV, when a French missionary persuaded the Emperor of Annam to seek the aid of France in his wars, with the result that in seventeen eighty-seven a treaty was signed giving France a bay and an island on the Indochinese coast.

The treaty was allowed, however, to become a dead letter.

The new French empire in the east was founded by French admirals during the reign of Napoleon III.

To avenge the murder of a Spanish missionary bishop in eighteen fifty-seven, a Franco-Spanish naval expedition was sent against the Emperor of Annam, Tào Thúc, who ruled the eastern part of the Indochinese peninsula.

It is a country in which imperialism has worked great good and wrought great evil, in which economic imperialism and humanitarian imperialism have been clearly enough revealed, often in conflict, in which imperialism has created what may prove to be, unless wisely dealt with, its own nemesis, a native nationalism.

Subsection French Admirals in Indochina There is a map of Indochina comprising Siam, Cambodia, Cochin China, Annam, Laos, Tonkin, and the Malay States on page 313.

French empire builders of the eighteenth century had India almost within their grasp, only to lose it to England.

But French imperialists of the nineteenth century sought and found compensation, relatively small compensation, in the great peninsula which juts down east of India.

The beginnings of French empire in this region are traced back by French historians to the reign of Louis XIV, when a French missionary persuaded the Emperor of Annam to seek the aid of France in his wars, with the result that in 1787 a treaty was signed giving France a bay and an island on the Indo-Chinese coast.

The treaty was allowed, however, to become a dead letter.

The new French empire in the east was founded by French admirals during the reign of Napoleon III.

To avenge the murder of a Spanish missionary bishop in 1857, a Franco-Spanish naval expedition was sent against the Emperor of Annam, Tao Duc, who ruled the eastern part of the Indo-Chinese peninsula.