Võ Nguyên Giáp
Vietnamese general and communist revolutionary
The Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary, and politician Võ Nguyên Giáp was born on 25 August 1911 and died on 4 October 2013.[1][2]
Quick Facts
- Office
- Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party
- Took office
- 1946
- Left office
- 1978
- Successor
- Lê Duẩn (as General Secretary)
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
After failing to pass examinations for the Certificate of Administrative Law, he took a job as a history teacher in Hanoi.[3][4] Giáp was commander of the army during the 1968 Tet Offensive and 1972 Easter Offensive.[5] He died in a Hanoi hospital at 6.30pm local time on 4 October 2013.[6] Giáp's birthplace was Quảng Bình province, where he came from a well-off peasant family; his anti-colonial activism started in 1925.[7]
During World War II, Giáp became a key figure as the military head of the Việt Minh, which fought against Japanese occupation.[7]
What the cited sources add
The Guardian obituary describes Giáp as a self-taught soldier who became one of the foremost military commanders of the 20th century.[8] RFI reports that Giáp beat the French at the historic battle of Dien Bien Phu and died at age 102.[6] The Independent notes that Giáp was born in 1911 in a village of Quang Binh, one of the poorest provinces in central Vietnam.[2] The Tuổi Trẻ article states that Giáp married Đặng Bích Hà in late 1946 after his first wife died.[9]
That same source confirms that Giáp and Đặng Bích Hà had four children: Võ Hòa Bình, Võ Hạnh Phúc, Võ Điện Biên, and Võ Hồng Nam.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Võ Nguyên Giáp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Stowe, "General Vo Nguyen Giap: Soldier who led Vietnamese forces against France and the US", The Independent, 4 October 2013; Currey, "Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap", U of Nebraska Press, 2022-03-04, p. 37 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Stowe, "General Vo Nguyen Giap: Soldier who led Vietnamese forces against France and the US", The Independent, 4 October 2013. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
- Wikipedia, "Võ Nguyên Giáp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Willbanks 2013, p. 229.; Davidson, "Vietnam at War: The History", Presidio Press, 1988, p. 7 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Võ Nguyên Giáp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Currey 2005, p. 32. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Võ Nguyên Giáp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "1972 – Operation Linebacker I", Air Force Historical Support Division; "The Ho Chi Minh Campaign: The 1975 North Vietnamese Spring Offensive", Buk's Historical Ad Hockery, 2020-03-11; "1978-1979 – Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia", www.globalsecurity.org; "Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979", HistoryNet, 2017-04-11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Vietnam war leader General dies, aged 102", Radio France Internationale, 4 October 2013. facts only, no text reused. english.rfi.fr
- Wikipedia, "Võ Nguyên Giáp" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: William Duiker, Historical Dictionary of Vietnam, second edition (Scarecrow, 1998), p. 277.; Tu dien bach khoa quan su Viet nam (Quan doi nhan dan, 1996), p. 918.; "Vietnam During World War 2", Pacific Atrocities Education (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Robert Templer, "General Vo Nguyen Giap obituary", The Guardian, 4 October 2013. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
- "Bà Đặng Bích Hà, phu nhân Đại tướng Võ Nguyên Giáp, qua đời ở tuổi 96", Tuổi Trẻ, 2024-09-17. facts only, no text reused. tuoitre.vn
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Võ Nguyên Giáp (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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