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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of northwest Vietnam near the Laos border. The French military base here fell to Vietminh troops on May 7, 1954, after a 56-day siege, leading to the end of France's involvement in Indochina.
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- noun the French military base fell after a siege by Vietnam troops that lasted 56 days; ended the involvement of France in Indochina in 1954
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The area known as Dien Bien Phu centers on a village called Muong Thanh by the T'ai tribesmen of the area.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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The area known as Dien Bien Phu centers on a village called Muong Thanh by the T'ai tribesmen of the area.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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We finally arrived in Dien Bien Phu which is supposed to be some monutmental town for World War II.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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We're not all pulling down millions of dollars (or even hundreds of thousands) because we can go into a TV studio and pronounce "Dien Bien Phu" correctly.
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The periods seem to be entirely arbitrary and leaves out the main events such as Dien Bien Phu, Tet, Vietnamization, Linebacker, Easter Offensive, and 1973 peace.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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During the Dien Bien Phu siege, more than five thousand wounded French soldiers crammed into a base hospital designed for forty-two beds.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Echoes of Dien Bien Phu were easy to find in Khesanh.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of their reckless action, but we did not.
Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011
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Political commentators and military analysts expressed fear that Khesanh could be “another Dien Bien Phu,” referring to the 1954 siege of a French camp in the Vietnamese hill country that resulted in a French surrender to Viet Minh Communist forces.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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After the battle of Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam was divided into North and South.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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