Michael W. Charney

Refugees from Hue arrive on a cargo ship at Da Nang, March 1975. MarkGodfrey/TopFoto.

The Fall of Saigon

The Vietnam War effectively ended on 30 April 1975 with the arrival of the North Vietnamese army in Saigon. Thousands fled the city, but many more were left behind.

‘The Conflagration of Dalla on the Rangoon River’, from Eighteen views taken at and near Rangoon, by Joseph Moore, 1825. British Library/Bridgeman Images.

The First Anglo-Burmese War

In March 1824 the East India Company declared war on Burma, the opening salvo in a series of conflicts that would see one empire fall, another expand and leave divisive wounds still felt today.