Diệm's rise was helped by Khôi's marriage to the daughter of Nguyễn Hữu Bài, the Catholic head of the Council of Ministers.

On 20 March 1934, aged 20, at the imperial city of Huế, Bảo Đại married Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan ( died 15 September 1963, Chabrignac, France ), a commoner from a wealthy Vietnamese Roman Catholic family.

Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, the NLF's non-communist chairman, was a figurehead.

However, Diệm's hideout was found and surrounded, and Minh sent General Mai Hữu Xuân, his deputy Colonel Nguyễn Văn Quan, his bodyguard Nguyễn Văn Nhung and Dương Hiếu Nghĩa to arrest both brothers.

The convoy was led by General Mai Hữu Xuân and the brothers were guarded inside the APC by Major Dương Hiếu Nghĩa and Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, Minh's bodyguard.

Thiệu and another Catholic General, Nguyễn Hữu Có, called for the replacement of Khánh with Minh, but the latter refused.

* Nguyễn Siêu ( 阮超 ) referred himself as the Duke Nguyễn Hữu, held Tây Phù Liệt-Thanh Trì, Hà Nội

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Writer Sơn Tùng, whose research was published in the official press in 1981, found that the flag was designed by Nguyễn Hữu Tiến, a leader of the uprising who was born in the northern village of Lũng Xuyên.

Nguyễn Hữu Thọ ( 10 July 1910, Bến Lức District – 24 December 1996, Hanoi ) was acting President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 30 March 1980 to 4 July 1981.

* Interview with Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, 1981 ( Video Interview ) WGBH Media Library & Archives

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In an attempt to pre-empt his deposal, Hương had backed a plot led by some Đại Việt-oriented Catholic officers reported to include Generals Thieu and Nguyễn Hữu Có.

Empress Nam Phương ( 14 December 1914 – 16 December 1963 ), born Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, later Imperial Princess Nam Phương, was the first and primary wife of Bảo Đại, the last emperor of Vietnam, from 1934 until her death.

Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan was born in Gò Công, a Mekong Delta town in what was then the French colony of Cochinchina, one of the three areas ( the others being the protectorates of Annam and Tonkin ) that composed the Union of French Indochina.

A naturalized French citizen, Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan, who was known as Mariette, studied at the Couvent des Oiseaux, a fashionable Catholic school located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, where she was sent at the age of 12.

On 9 March 1934, the public announcement of the engagement of Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan and Bảo Đại, King of Annam, was released.

After a formal betrothal ceremony in the imperial summer palace in Da Lat, the king married Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan on 20 March 1934, in Huế.

" The New York Times reported that " discontent was general " in the country, given that Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan had declined to renounce Catholicism and was appealing to Pope Pius XI for a dispensation.

He organised a Unity Congress, a forum of various anti-communist nationalists such as Nguyễn Tôn Hoàn's Đại Việt Quốc Dân Đảng ( Nationalist Party of Greater Vietnam ), various Catholic groups and activists, as well as the Hòa Hảo and Cao Đài religious sects, and the Binh Xuyên organised crime syndicate.

* Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, vice-president of the Republic of Vietnam before April 30, 1975 ( Long Xuyên ).

Born as Nguyễn Xuân Bảo, Nhất Hạnh was born in the city of Quảng Ngãi in Central Vietnam ( Thừa Thiên ) in 1926.

A France-Vietnam alliance was signed through the Treaty of Versailles of 1787, between Louis XVI and Prince Nguyễn Ánh.

As the French regime was under considerable strain, France was unable to follow through with the application of the Treaty, but Mgr Pigneau de Behaine persisted in his efforts and with the support of French individuals and traders mounted a force of French soldiers and officers that would contribute to the modernization of the armies of Nguyễn Ánh, contributing to his victory and his reconquest of all of Vietnam by 1802.

Amid religious protests that garnered worldwide attention, Diệm lost the backing of his U. S. patrons and was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d ' état that deposed his government.

Diệm was born in Huế, the capital of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty.

Its officers were installed by the French and the chief of staff General Nguyễn Văn Hinh was a French citizen ; Hinh loathed Diệm and frequently disobeyed him.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ was the top leader in 1965 – 67.

" keeper of greatness ", 22 October 1913 – 30 July 1997 ), born Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy ( 阮福永瑞 ), was the 13th and last emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, which is the last dynasty of Vietnam.

Bảo Đại was born Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy in the Palace of Doan-Trang-Vien, part of the compound of the Purple Forbidden City in Huế, the capital of Vietnam.

He later was given the name Nguyễn Vĩnh Thụy.

The Nguyễn Dynasty was given nominal rule of Annam.

At the age of nine, Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thụy was sent to France to be educated at the Lycée Condorcet and, later, the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

The Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội is not to be confused with the Việt Nam Cách Mạng Ðồng Minh Hội ( League for the Vietnamese Revolution, abbreviated as Việt Cách ) which was founded by Nguyễn Hai Than and Hồ Ngoc Lam, and which later joined the Vietnamese National Coalition in 1946.

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Chính phủ Cách mạng lâm thời Cộng hoà miền Nam Việt Nam ), or PRG, was formed on June 8, 1969, as an underground government opposed to the South Vietnamese government of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.

Lê died in 1986 and was succeeded by Trường in July 1986 ; Trường was in turn succeeded by Nguyễn Văn Linh in December later that year.

Minh was accused of ordering an aide, Nguyễn Văn Nhung, to kill Diệm.

In 1787, Pigneau de Béhaine, a French Catholic priest, petitioned the French government and organized French military volunteers to aid Nguyễn Ánh in retaking lands his family lost to the Tây Sơn.

Together with Lê Đức Thọ, Head of the Party Organisational Department, and Nguyễn Chí Thanh, a military general, Lê tried to monopolise the decision-making process – this became even more evident following Hồ's death.

The loyalists and some of Nhu's underworld connections were also to kill some figures who were assisting the conspirators, such as the titular but relatively powerless Vice President Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, CIA agent Lucien Conein, who was on assignment in Vietnam as a military adviser, and Lodge.

When Nguyễn Kim was assassinated in 1545, military power fell into the hands of his son-in-law, Trịnh Kiểm.

Between the mid-17th century to mid-18th century, as Chenla was weakened by internal strife and Siamese invasions, the Nguyễn Lords used various means, political marriage, diplomatic pressure, political and military favors, to gain the area around present day Saigon and the Mekong Delta.

The surviving prince Nguyễn Phúc Ánh ( often called Nguyễn Ánh ) fled to Siam, and obtained military support from the Siamese king.

In 1784, during the conflict between Nguyễn Ánh, the surviving heir of the Nguyễn Lords, and the Tây Sơn Dynasty, a French Roman Catholic prelate, Pigneaux de Behaine, sailed to France to seek military backing for Nguyễn Ánh.

The post of Tổng Trấn ( governor of all military provinces ) was a political post in the early of Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty ( 1802 – 1830 ).

Their basis for this conclusion included: a belief that the South Vietnamese military was no longer combat effective ; the results of the fall 1967 South Vietnamese presidential election ( in which the Nguyễn Văn Thiệu / Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ticket had only received 24 percent of the popular vote ); the Buddhist crises of 1963 and 1966 ; well-publicized anti-war demonstrations in Saigon ; and continuous criticism of the Thieu government in the southern press.

With the end of the war with the Trịnh, the Nguyễn were able to devote more effort ( and military force ) to conquest of the south.

She had tea with the wife of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a palace, visited an orphanage, and lifted off in an open-door helicopter — armed by military guards with machine guns — to witness U. S. troops fighting in a jungle below.

On 26 September 1964, and due to US pressure, General Nguyễn Khánh and the senior officers in his military junta created a semblance of civilian rule by forming the High National Council ( HNC ), an appointed advisory body akin to a legislature.

The leader of the three brothers, Nguyễn Huệ, was also a very skilled military leader.

This paved the way for Nguyễn Ánh to capture the entire country within 10 years, with the help of French military adventurers enlisted by French bishop Pigneau de Behaine.

The city is renowned as the birthplace of 18th century Vietnamese emperor Nguyễn Huệ and, more recently, had a large American military presence during the Vietnam War.

In 1965, Kỳ was appointed Prime Minister and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu became President by a special joint meeting of military leaders following the voluntary resignation of civilian President Sửu.

Advertisements used from the mid-1960s included South Vietnamese Olympians, such as Thach Thi Ngoc, and flamboyant military officer Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, which his wife Madame Nguyen Cao Ky was a flight stewardess before they were married.