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Why did Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty succumb to French invasion and colonization in the Cochinchina Campaign and the Tonkin Campaign, while other East Asian cultural sphere nations avoided being colonized to such an extent?

by /u/quintol in /r/AskHistorians

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