Indochina Theatre (In Frederick's Fields)

The Indochina Theatre was a military theatre of the ocurring overseas in French Indochina. France, under the Drumontian Restoration and the Boulangist State, had acquired much of the region of Indochina through war of the local powers, and had proven to acquire even more land in south China under indirect zones of influence after the divisions of China following the Sino-French War and the collapse of Qing China in its Han territories a few years afterwards. British troops from Burma and Malaya invaded France soon after the declaration of war, aided with a Siam interested in recovering some territories. The Indochina Theatre ended soon, as the demoralised French corps surrendered and evacuated Indochina, which was occupied by British troops. However, it was a major event, as, despite the fact that most of French Indochina remained French even after the war, it sowed the seed of Southeast Asian nationalism in the major European colonies, especially the British Raj (where the Indochina Theatre started a series of protests that ended in the and the formation of the.