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Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
(; ) was the climactic confrontation of the
First Indochina War
between the
French Union
's
French Far East Expeditionary Corps
and
Viet Minh
communist
-
nationalist
revolutionaries
. It was, from the French view before the event, a
set piece battle
to draw out the Vietnamese and destroy them with superior firepower. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of
Indochina
at
Geneva
.
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