1839
Tôn Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (died 1913)
Tôn Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (died 1913)
Tôn Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (died 1913)
Tôn Thất Thuyết
Vietnamese revolutionary (1839–1913)
- Born
- 1839
Tôn Thất Thuyết, Courtesy name Đàm Phu (談夫), was the regent and leading mandarin of Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty. Thuyết later led the Cần Vương movement which aimed to restore Vietnamese independence under Emperor Hàm Nghi. He fled to China seeking political refuge after Hàm Nghi's capture by France, and later died in Longzhou, Guangxi.