Võ Nguyên Giáp- general and commander-in-Chief

    Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen!

     My name is Ngan, and I'm from Tan Thanh Secondary School. And today, I'm going to tell you about a famous person, can you guess who is that?

    Now, let's see!

- Who is that?- That's easy. He is a famous general - Vo Nguyen Giap. He's famous for leading the People's Army of Viet Nam at Dien Bien Phu. He was its Commander- In- Chief.

Võ Nguyên Giáp was born in he village of An Xá, Quảng Bình Province, and on August 25, 1911. He is a retired Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People’s Army and apolitician. He was a principal commander in two wars: theFirst Indochina War (1946–1954) and the Vietnam War(1960–1975). He participated in the following historically significant battles: Lạng Sơn (1950); Hòa Bình (1951–1952); Điện Biên Phủ (1954); the Tết Offensive (1968); theEaster Offensive (1972); and the final Hồ Chí Minh Campaign (1975). He was also a journalist, an interior minister in President Hồ Chí Minh’s Việt Minh government, the military commander of the Việt Minh, the commander of the Vietnam People’s Army (PAVN), and defense minister. He also served as Politburo member of the Lao Động Party. He was the most prominent military commander, besideHồ Chí Minh, during the war and was responsible for major operations and leadership until the war ended.

At 14, Giáp became a messenger for the Haiphong Power Company and shortly thereafter joined the Tân Việt Cách Mạng Đảng , a romantically styled revolutionary youth group. Two years later, he entered Quốc Học (also known in English as the “National Academy”), a French-run lycée in Huế , from which two years later, according to his own account, he was expelled for having organized a student strike. In 1933, at the age of 22, Giáp enrolled in the University of Hanoi. He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1931 and took part in several demonstrations against French rule in Indochina as well as having assisted in founding the Democratic Front in 1933. When France outlawed communism during the same year, Giáp fled to China together with Phạm Văn Đồng where he joined up with Hồ Chí Minh , the leader of the Vietnam Independence League ( Việt Minh ). He returned to Vietnam in 1944, and between then and 1945 he helped organize resistance to the Japanese occupation forces 

In December 19 1946, The First Indochina War officially boom, Under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party, he began directing armed struggle lasted nineyears against the return of the French (1945-1954) in his capacity as supreme commander and political commissarGeneral , renamed in 1949 called army commander in Chief cum Secretary General military Commission. Vo Nguyen Giap, General sales rank on May 28, 1948under the sign ordinance 110/SL January 20, 1948, he became the first General of the Vietnam National Armyafter 37 years. As the famous general in the history of Vietnam, VoNguyen Giap art focuses our few more enemies, take theweak institutional strengths, taking victory modernprimitive. Thought of his famous military called the People's War legacy military point of Ho Chi Minh, the quintessence of artistic ancestors fight, the military worldknowledge, reasoning military Marxist-Leninist anddrawn from personal experience is constantly updated in the many wars that stand out war against the French andAmericans.

In 1954, VNG was given full trust in command of Dien bien Phu by HCM and the Labour Party. Prior to war, HCM had advise him: " For you all the right commander, this battle can only  win, not be lose because losing is out of capital.  He confidentlyplanned and commanded the 4 of the 6 Infantry Division of the Vietnam People's Army, defeated th army equipped with modern of the French Union. This victory put an end to French power in Indochina after 83 years and have taken Vo Nguyen Giap go to the world history as a military celebrity of VN, a hero of third world, where people were enslaved, viewed VNG is a idol to determined overthrow the colonial, construct the independence of their own.

And the battles which he participate as the Campaign Commander - Party  --Secretary in the war against France are:

-North Vietnam Campaign (autumn and winter 1947)
-Border Campaign (May 9-10, 1950)
-MidlandsCampaign (December 1950)
-Campaign North East (1951)
-Delta Campaign (May 1951)
-Hòa Bình Campaign (December 1951)
-Northwest Campaign (September 1952)
-Upper Laos Campaign (April 1953)
-Dien Bien Phu (May 3-5 1954)

From 1954 to 1976, Vo Nguyen Giap continues to served as Member of the Politburo - Secretary of the Central Military Committee, General Command Vietnam People's Army, the Minister of Defense. He is also Deputy Prime Minister, the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers (from 1955 to 1991).

From 1954 to 1964, Vo Nguyen Giap advocated peaceful struggle, requests the Republic of Vietnam  done ​​Geneva agreement for a unified Vietnam, not divisive about emotional and politics. However, Ngo Dinh Diem had flatlyrejected the claim by Anti Communist  Task Force Movement

From April 30, 1975 to the present:

In a short time from July 1960 to January 1963 he  get more positions Chairman State Committee of Science. February 7, 1980, he stepped down as Minister of Defense [11] but remained a member of the Politburo (to 1982) and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Science - Engineering. He was awarded:

-Gold Star Medal (1992)
-2 Order of Ho Chi Minh
-Two first class Order of Military
-Victory Medal class.

and the 70-year Party badge

. august 25, 2011, he celebrated 100 years of life circle.