Cochinchina

His last prophetic report, received two days before he died, described the beginning of a war: “Cochinchina is burning, the French and British are finished here, and we the Americans ought to clear out of Southeast Asia.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

His last prophetic report, received two days before he died, described the beginning of a war: “Cochinchina is burning, the French and British are finished here, and we the Americans ought to clear out of Southeast Asia.”

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

To this barbell-shaped tail of China now known as Vietnam (the bells being Tonkin and Cochinchina, with the bar of Annam at one point only thirty-one miles wide), were added Laos and Cambodia: in all, an area about the size of Italy, mostly mountains and jungle, except for two fertile deltas, the Red River in the north and the Mekong in the south.

'Valley of Death' 2010

Actually, first communist parties formed at Saigon and one of first communist-led uprisings was the 1940 Cochinchina south vietnam Uprising.

Think Progress » Bush’s New Strategy: Copy The ‘Success’ of Vietnam 2006

At the end of 1944, the Viet Minh claimed a total membership of 500,000, of which 200,000 were in Tonkin(North VN), 150,000 in Annam, and 150,000 in Cochinchina (Annam and Cochinchina became later SouthVN).

Think Progress » Bush’s New Strategy: Copy The ‘Success’ of Vietnam 2006

In Cochinchina to the south, the rice plantation economy grew rapidly and produced widespread tenancy among the farming populace.

6. Vietnam, 1902-1945 2001

The Second Treaty of Saigon compelled the Vietnamese emperor to conform his foreign policy to that of France and to recognize the French possession of Cochinchina.

1872-73 2001

This is what Calmette said on the subject: During the month of October 1891, in the rainy season, the Bac Lien village, which lies in lower Cochinchina, was attacked by a swarm of venomous reptiles belonging to a species known as the

The Pasteur Institute 1998

When the Chams of Cochinchina are sowing their dry rice fields and desire that no shower should fall, they eat their rice dry in order to prevent rain from spoiling the crop.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

When the Chams of Cochinchina are sowing their dry rice fields and desire that no shower should fall, they eat their rice dry in order to prevent rain from spoiling the crop.

Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922