Bridge across the moat
Can you imagine bombs going off repeatly around this place.Hue was the ancient Imperial city of Vietnam; it featured a Forbidden City much like the one surviving in China, laid out along the exact same plans. It stood through the French War, and multiple conflicts with the Chinese, before the Viet Cong holed up there in the aftermath of the Tet Offensive, forcing U.S. Marines to go door-to-door; in one of the most pitched battles of the war, the Marines ended up calling in artillery fire, laying waste to an area that is still being restored today.
The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more 
