The French gunboat Pluvier engages the Vietnamese defences of Nam Dinh with her masthead-mounted canons-revolvers, 27 March 1883
The French gunboat Pluvier engages the Vietnamese defences of Nam Dinh with her masthead-mounted canons-revolvers, 27 March 1883. Published in Le Monde. She did much the same at Son Tay
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