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explain the efforts made by the French to colonise Vietnam

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What efforts were made by the French to powerfully colonize Vietnam

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(i) The French started by building canals and cleaning lands in the Mekong delta to increase cultivation.

(ii) Irrigation works of canals and earthworks were built mainly with forced labour, which led to the increase in rice production and its exports.

(iii) It was followed by infrastructure projects to help transport goods for trade, move military garrisons to control the entire region.

(iv) Construction of trans-Indo-China railway network that would link the northern and southern parts of Vietnam and China were begu

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French–Vietnamese relations started as early as the 17th century with the mission of the Jesuit father Alexandre de Rhodes. Various traders would visit Vietnam during the 18th century, until the major involvement of French forces under Pigneau de Béhaine from 1787 to 1789 helped establish the Nguyễn Dynasty. France was heavily involved in Vietnam in the 19th century under the pretext of protecting the work of Catholic missionaries in the country. France progressively carved for itself a huge colony, which would form French Indochina in 1887. France continued to rule Vietnam as a colony until France's defeat in the First Indochina War and the proclamation of Vietnam's independence in 1954.