Content: Chapters: 1 - England & France and Asia - Pacific in 17th & 18th centuries. 2 - Direct & indirect causes of the Da Nang battle. The role of missionaries & merchants. 3 - The role & position of Dang Nang in the eyes of England & France's colonialists: Da Nang as a new Gibralta. Da Nang as a beach-head. Historic role of French Catholic priest Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau de Behaine (1741 - 1799). 4 - France invading Vietnam. The establishment of "Vietnam committee" by Napoleon III. Da Nang battle: Vietnam - France correlation. Developing details. Results. Others battle fields. 5 - Some opportunities that were lost that leading to the Accord in the yesr of 1862. 6 - The two failures of the France in Vietnam in 19th century. Historic truths. 7 - Vietnamese translation of the chapters from the book "La Geste Francaise en Indochine".