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The Paracels and Spratly islands history

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The Tay Son dynasties and then the Nguyen Gia Long have defined Vietnam's sovereignty over the East Sea as well as the two archipelagos of Paracels (aka Hoang Sa) and Spratly (aka Truong Sa). Like the former Nguyen warlords, the Tây Sơn reign of Quang Trung - Nguyễn Huệ continued to organize Hoang Sa and Bac Hai teams with the main function of protecting and exploiting the remote archipelago of the East Sea. – Excerpt from “Emperor Quang Trung with Paracels (aka Hoang Sa) and Spratly (aka Truong Sa).”

John Barrow was an envoy of the Macartney mission who traveled from England to China and visited Da Nang in June 1793 (under Emperor Quang Toan). In “A Voyage to ‘Đàng Trong,' in the year 1792-1793, it was described as follows: "The boat of Cochinchina has many different designs, which are used in trade along the seashore, fishing, gathering seafood and birds nest in the group of islands called Paracels (Hoang Sa). – Excerpt from “Emperor Quang Trung with Paracels (aka Hoang Sa) and Spratly (aka Truong Sa).” The boats from ‘Đàng Trong’ means under the period under the reign of Emperor Tay Son’s

... After the fall of Tay Son dynasty, Nguyen Gia Long continued its policy towards the East Sea, affirming Vietnam's sovereignty over the Paracels (aka Hoang Sa) and Spratly (aka Truong Sa) archipelagos. Under the Courts of Gia Long, Minh Mang, and Thieu Tri, they exercised their sovereignty in various forms of activities such as exploring, inspection, patrolling, harvesting artifact objects and seafood products, organizing tax collection and rescuing wrecked ships in the area; surveying, mapping, building worship shrines, setting up sovereignty postmarks, recording and building memorabilia on wood, planting trees for passers-by to recognizing. – According to “Emperor Quang Trung with Hoang Sa, Truong Sa.”

By Dong tinh hoai Ngo; English version by V.G.Tran