Sino-French War

The Sino-French War (, , ), also known as the Tonkin War and Tonquin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 through April 1885, to decide whether France would supplant China's control of Tonkin (northern Vietnam). Although the Chinese armies performed better than in other nineteenth-century foreign wars and the war ended with French defeat on land, the French gained most of the aims they wanted in the Treaty of Tientsin.