Page 187 - Thorn In The Heart

Chinh Nguyên

Vietnam. They rose in 1771 at Nghe-An and had occurred in
both parts of Vietnam after Nguyen-Hue drove down the
Chinese Manchu Mandarin troops in the North 1789.

The Tay-Son unified Vietnam, became powerful widespread
that the country turned into a national revolution. Vietnam
revealed a serenity with a quiet confidence of Vietnamese in
themselves, and they were proud to live in the sunlight
civilization with the great territorial expansion and intellectual
development.

Nguyen-Hue became the great King of Vietnam, names
Quang-Trung.

King Quang-Trung succeeded to keep peace within the
country of 24 years from the North downward to Gia-Dinh.
Also, his ambition is to regain the lost territory lands, which
Chinese had extorted and set the public command on it as China
part at the time of Trung sisters and Ngo-Quyen. Ngo-Quyen
had faced Chinese military once. He was forward his troops
deep to the China territory and tried to take back the lost land,
but he did not succeed.

At the time of King Quang-Trung and under General Vo-
Van-Dung the liberation of Thang-Long arm forces was ready
for Northward to face the Chinese Empire for regaining the twin
Kwang provinces in July 1791.

Emperor Kien-Long of China had approved to give up a
Kwang-tsi province only. Then he was ready to choose the good
date in September 1792 to give a Manchu princess to King
Quang-Trung for a wife with the premeditated idea of
safeguarded on the South China border.

Suddenly King Quang-Trung died on July 29, 1792, by
Leucocythaemia in the time he wanted to move his troops
upward. It made the panic-strike news for General Vo-Van-

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