Siege of Tourane

Siege of Tourane
	Part of Cochinchina Campaign
	; French warships off Tourane, September 1858
Date	1 September 1858 – 22 March 1860
Location	Quảng Nam, Trung Kỳ, Đại Nam16.0666°N 108.2333°E
Result	Vietnamese victory
Belligerents
French Empire; Spanish Empire Captaincy General of the Philippines; ;	Đại Nam
Commanders and leaders
Rigault de Genouilly ; François Page	Nguyễn Tri Phương ; Lê Đình Lý ; Đào Trí ; Ông Ích Khiêm
Strength
1 50-gun frigate; 2 12-gun corvettes; 5 steam-gunboats; 5 steam transports; 1 despatch vessel; 1,000 French marine infantry; 550 Spanish infantry; 450 Filipino chasseurs Tagals	2,000 men, rising to 10,000 men
Casualties and losses
128 killed and wounded, several hundred deaths from cholera	1000+ killed

The siege of Tourane (September 1858–March 1860) was a Vietnamese victory during the Cochinchina Campaign, a punitive campaign against the Vietnamese launched by France and Spain in 1858. A joint Franco-Spanish expedition under the command of Admiral Charles Rigault de Genouilly captured Tourane (modern Da Nang) in September 1858, but was then besieged in the city by the Vietnamese and forced eventually to evacuate it in March 1860.

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