Battle of Dien Bien Phu

The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries. The garrison was overrun in May after a two-month siege, and most of the French forces surrendered. The...