Cần Vương movement

Cần Vương movement
Toàn văn Chiếu Cần Vương
Date 2 July 1885 - 1896 Location Vietnam Result Decisive French victory
Belligerents
[[File:|23x15px|border |alt=|link=]] Nguyen dynasty	France
Commanders and leaders
[[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Hàm Nghi [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Tôn Thất Thuyết [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Nguyễn Văn Tường [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Dinh Cong Trang [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Phan Dinh Phung [[File:|23x15px|border |alt=Nguyen dynasty|link=Nguyen dynasty]] Hoàng Hoa Thám	General Roussel de Courcy General Léon Prud'homme

The Cần Vương (Vietnamese: [kə̂n vɨəŋ], Hán tự: , lit. Aid the King) movement was a large-scale Vietnamese insurgency between 1885 and 1889 against French colonial rule. Its objective was to expel the French and install the boy emperor Hàm Nghi as the leader of an independent Vietnam. The movement lacked a coherent national structure, and consisted mainly of regional leaders who attacked French troops in their own provinces. The movement initially prospered, as there were only a few French garrisons in Annam, but failed after the French recovered from the surprise of the insurgency and poured troops into Annam from bases in Tonkin and Cochinchina. The insurrection in Annam spread and flourished in 1886, reached its climax the following year and gradually faded out by 1889.

French involvement in Vietnam begins as early as the 17th century, with missionaries such as Alexandre de Rhodes spreading the Catholic faith. This situation was to remain until the late 18th century, when a popular uprising against heavy taxation and corruption, known as the Tay Son uprising, toppled the ruling Nguyen family in 1776. A Nguyen prince, Nguyen Anh managed to escape. In an attempt to regain power, Nguyen Anh sought the assistance of France through French missionaries in Vietnam. Though he did not receive formal military assistance, he was supplied with sufficient aid by sympathetic merchants and was able to reclaim the throne. Although not officially sanctioned by the French government, this was to heighten French interest in Vietnam and mark the start of increasing intervention.

After regaining the throne in 1802 at the capital city of Huế in central Vietnam, Nguyen Anh reestablished the Confucian traditions and institutes that were overturned during the Tay Son uprising. Having returned to power with the aid of foreigners, this was in order to reassure the scholar-gentry families that comprised much of the government and bureaucracy of a return to the system that guaranteed their privileges. While this helped to legitimize the returning Nguyen dynasty in the eyes of the mandarins and officials, it did little to assuage or address the grievances that sparked the Tay Son uprising.

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