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Vo Nguyen Giap
Vo Nguyen Giap was a Vietnamese military commander, the principal general of the Viet Minh and later of North Vietnam. He led the Viet Minh forces in the First Indochina War against France. His siege of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 forced the surrender of the French garrison, ending French Indochina.
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