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Route Coloniale 4

Route Coloniale 4 (RC4) is a road in Vietnam, bordering the Chinese border, from Hanoi to Cao Bang[?], famous for a French military disaster in 1950 in which several units of the French army, including some batallions of the foreign legion were decimated by the Viet Minh and essentially ceased to exist as fighting units.

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