| In February 1947, following the Battle of Hanoi, France reoccupied Hanoi and the Viet Minh once again assumed the position of guerrillas, fighting in the mountains. |
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| Having appropriated the nationalist mantle and communist ideology, the Viet Minh were popular heroes. |
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| By 1959, Viet Minh soldiers were infiltrating the South and escalating the violence in South Vietnam. |
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| Following the French defeat by the Viet Minh, it ceased to issue bank notes and became a merchant bank. |
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| In 1954, the French left Indochina, but the Viet Minh also withdrew to North Vietnam, and King Norodom Sihanouk called elections. |
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| It was meant to prevent Viet Minh soldiers concealing themselves and destroy crops. |
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| They participated in most of the major battles when France was fighting against the Viet Minh. |
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| Vietnamese communists under Ho Chi Minh organized a coalition of anti-colonial groups, the Viet Minh, though many anti-communists refused to join. |
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| France attempted to regain control of French Indochina but was defeated by the Viet Minh in 1954 at the climactic Battle of Dien Bien Phu. |
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| In 1954, in accordance with the Geneva Accords putting an end to war between Vietnam and France, the members of the opposing Viet Minh in South-Vietnam merged with the North-Vietnamese to separate the warring parties. |
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| While the Deer Team was with the Viet Minh, the Japanese surrendered and the Viet Minh declared Vietnam an independent nation, using language from the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Navarre, he said, was wrong about Viet Minh intentions in Laos. |
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| Captain Mourier joined the GCMA operating in the rears of Viet Minh and, for close to two years, coordinated the Thai maquis, Miao and Chinese nationalists. |
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| In October 1945, he headed a Laotian commando with which he re-conquered the RC9 villages one after the other, chasing away the Viet Minh troops therein. |
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| In detail, he explains its increasingly difficult military situation as relative military power slides to the Viet Minh opponent. |
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| Indeed, France should recall its own troubles in dealing with the Viet Minh in its former colony of Vietnam and in dealing with the independence movement in Algeria. |
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| Of course, the Viet Minh established their first Armed Propaganda Teams in 1944, so the adversary had a bit more experience at getting to the hamlets with a message. |
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