The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu" id="mwsg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Dien Bien Phu">Battle of Điện Biên Phủ</a> begins with an artillery barrage by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" id="mwsw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Võ_Nguyên_Giáp" id="mwtA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Võ Nguyên Giáp">Võ Nguyên Giáp</a>; Viet Minh victory led to the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" id="mwtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a> and French withdrawal from Vietnam.<sup about="#mwt112" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"}}' id="cite_ref-21" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_13#cite_note-21" id="mwtg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 21;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwtw">[21]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-21"><cite about="#mwt109" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDavidson1991">Davidson, Phillip B. (1991). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=seXWfsD46QQC" id="mwB9g" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB9k">Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p.<span id="mwB9o" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>234. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB9s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB9w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-19-506792-7" id="mwB90" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-506792-7"><bdi id="mwB94">978-0-19-506792-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB98">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB-A">22 February</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt109" class="Z3988" id="mwB-E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Vietnam+at+War%3A+The+History%2C+1946-1975&amp;rft.pages=234&amp;rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1991&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-19-506792-7&amp;rft.aulast=Davidson&amp;rft.aufirst=Phillip+B.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DseXWfsD46QQC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+13"></span></span>