Louis Alexandre Esprit Gaston Brière de l'Isle (24 June 1827 – 19 June 1896) was a French Army general who achieved distinction firstly as Governor of...

force into two brigades. The 1st Brigade was commanded by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal, and...

1885). The Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, under the command of General Louis Brière de l'Isle, defeated the Chinese Guangxi Army and captured the strategically...

Tuyên Quang, on 3 March 1885, was the high point of Brière de l'Isle's career. Brière de l'Isle's record of solid professional achievement was marred...

General Louis Brière de l'Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the south to cut Liu's line of retreat. On the evening of 11 April, seeing Brière de l'Isle's...

General Louis Brière de l'Isle returned to Hanoi with Lieutenant-Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade to relieve the Siege of Tuyên Quang, leaving de Négrier...

General Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–96) General François de Négrier (1842–1913) The base for the Hưng Hóa campaign was Sơn Tây. General Louis Brière de l'Isle's...

Sebastian Kneipp, German priest and naturopath (b. 1821) June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (b. 1827) July 1 – Ropata Wahawaha, New Zealand...

retreat, and sent General Brière de l'Isle with the rest of the 1st Brigade in pursuit of Prince Hoang. In early May Brière de l'Isle cornered Prince Hoang...

week after General François de Négrier's defeat at the Battle of Bang Bo (24 March 1885). General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the commander-in-chief of French...

force into two brigades. The 1st Brigade was commanded by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal, and...

badly wrong. In the wake of the relief of Tuyên Quang, General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, drew up...

and head curator Henri Brière (1873–1957), French politician Léo Brière, French mentalist and illusionist Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–1896), French Army...

for Brière de l'Isle's dismissal, and his attack on Samory Touré's forces in 1883 began a conflict which only ended in 1893. When Brière de l'Isle appointed...

persecution of Catholics. In France, the new revolution overthrew Louis Philippe in 1848. Louis Napoleon became the President, then the Emperor of France. To...

Guangxi Army out of Tonkin. In the second half of February General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, returned...

General Louis Brière de l'Isle's 1st Brigade made a flank march to the west to cut Liu's line of retreat. On the evening of 11 April, seeing Brière de l'Isle's...

Federico Menabrea, Italian soldier, statesman (b. 1809) June 19 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (b. 1827) July 1 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American...

German-Brazilian photographer, businessman (d. 1882) June 24 – Louis Brière de l'Isle, French general (d. 1897) June 26 – Amédée Courbet, French admiral...

Expansion continued under Governor Louis Brière de l'Isle from 1876 to 1881. Through diplomatic and military efforts, Briere reinforced French control on the...

1884 and was replaced by General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the senior of his two brigade commanders. Brière de l'Isle's first task was to beat off a major...

strength of 550 men were unfit for duty. In November 1884 General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the commander of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, took steps to...

de la rivière de Hué seront rasés. Art. 3. Les fonctionnaires annamites, depuis la frontière de la Cochinchine jusqu’à la frontière de la province de...

brigade Louis Brière de l'Isle (1827–1896), who had earlier made his reputation as governor of Senegal. The 2nd Brigade was commanded by général de brigade...

considerable embarrassment for France. On 17 February 1885 General Louis Brière de l'Isle, the general-in-chief of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps, left Lạng...

OCLC 855518794. Poyen-Bellisle, H. de, L'artillerie de la Marine à Formose (Paris, 1888) Rollet de l'Isle, M., Au Tonkin et dans les mers de Chine (Paris, 1886) Rouil...

Song and Than Moï. Herbinger sent alarmist cables from Lang Son to Louis Brière de l'Isle who, without bothering to sift through the misleading information...

Following his capture of Lạng Sơn on 13 February 1885, General Louis Brière de l'Isle personally led Colonel Giovanninelli's 1st Brigade to the relief...

Arlington, L. C., Through the Dragon's Eyes (London, 1931) Loir, M., L'escadre de l'amiral Courbet (Paris, 1886) Lung Chang [龍章], Yueh-nan yu Chung-fa chan-cheng...

legalization of foreign interference in the interior. Although Louis Brière de l'Isle was unable to invade its depot at Longzhou, the Guangxi Army saw...