Labels:bulletin board | door | reckoner | road | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Ton <in Nineteenth-century French pratectorate 1r nort therm Indochina containing what is naw Vietnam Tonkin was brought under French rule in 1866 when commercial traders sought ta open and control the upper Red niver region In 1873 military expedition arrived to impose protectorate status on the resource -rich inland area Soon therea fter French forces became embroiled in war with China (1882 1885, which claimed suzerainty aver Tonkin At great cost the French eventually preva ailed the Chinese apen river impase over
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