Capture of Mỹ Tho

Capture of Mỹ Tho
	Part of Cochinchina campaign
Date	12 April 1861
Location	Mỹ Tho, Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam
Result	French and Spanish victory
Belligerents
French Empire; Spanish Empire Captaincy General of the Philippines; ;	Nguyễn dynasty
Commanders and leaders
François Page	Unknown

The Capture of Mỹ Tho (Vietnamese: Mỹ Tho) on 12 April 1861 was an important allied victory in the Cochinchina campaign (1858–62). This campaign, fought between the French and the Spanish on the one side and the Vietnamese on the other, began as a limited punitive expedition and ended as a French war of conquest. The war concluded with the establishment of the French colony of Cochinchina, a development that inaugurated nearly a century of French colonial dominance in Vietnam.

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