1202 Dien Bien Phu

On May 7th 1954 the French garrison at Dien Bien Phu surrendered to Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces. For the last 54 days it had been cut off and the surrender was the culmination of an operation that had seen the French troops almost constantly under-fire for 209 days. Comprehensibly beaten it signaled the end of French Indochina.