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The Yunnan Army was an army raised by the Qing dynasty to fight in the Sino-French War during the Tonkin Campaign. [1] Liu Yongfu was a commander of the Yunnan army.

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References

  1. Harris, Lane J. The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History.