... declared the establishment of an independent kingdom, enjoying a thousands years of freedom and independence from foreign nations, until the Chinese took over again in the fifteenth century; suppressing Vietnamese culture all over again. In the seventeenth century, the Vietnamese can thank Nguyen Ahn for signing a treaty with the French, in agreement that the French would provide military aid in exchange for a grant of ... monopoly of external trade, which never happened and led to future major French territorial conquests in the nineteenth century. During the nineteenth century, French...

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