commander, 7 engagements

Battles of Cao Van Vien

South Vietnamese general, 1921 to 2008

Cao Van Vien is recorded as a commander at 7 placed engagements in the atlas between 1965 and 1975: 6 battles and 1 campaign across 2 present-day countries, most in Vietnam (6), France (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 111 km apart end to end, 18 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Vietnam War (7).

7 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

7 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Vietnam War 7

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
1965	Battle of Dong Xoai	Đồng Xoài, Vietnam		Viet Cong victory
1968	Tet Offensive	South Vietnam, Vietnam	61 km S	U.S. – South Vietnamese victory
11 February 1968	Tet Offensive battle of Cholon and Phu Tho Racetrack	Cholon, France	46 km SW	US/South Vietnamese victory
1968	May Offensive	South Vietnam, Vietnam	4 km E	American and South Vietnamese victory
1968	Phase III Offensive	South Vietnam, Vietnam	0 km N	US / South Vietnamese victory
1972	Easter Offensive	South Vietnam, Vietnam	0 km N	U.S. and South Vietnamese victory
1975	1975 spring offensive	South Vietnam, Vietnam	0 km N	North Vietnamese victory; Fall of Saigon to the PAVN and...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, The United States Army Command and General Staff College, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.