If Basilan itself was previously inhabited by these ancient Negrito peoples, they were eventually driven farther south by the arrival at around 1500BCE-500BCE of the same ancient Chinese-Annamese aboriginals who drove away the Negritos from Southern China in the first place.
32.
Three hundred years later, the Annamese officer, L?Qu?�n, said of Tr?nh Kh? he " served the public good, exhausted his virtue ( on it ), and considered the correction of evil and the presentation of instruction to be his own duty ".
33.
The employment of Vietnamese auxiliaries on a regular basis was pioneered in Cochinchina, where the French formed a regiment of Annamese riflemen in 1879 ( variously referred to as " tirailleurs annamites ", " tirailleurs saigonais " or " tirailleurs cochinchinois " ).
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However, in the 1395 " Ancestral injunctions ", the Yongle Emperor's father, the Hongwu Emperor, specifically ordered that China should never attack Annam the Yongle Emperor thus took no action until early 1405, when an Annamese envoy confirmed the pretender's story,
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An English lawyer and sinologist Edward Harper Parker observed that " " Coreans, unlike Chinese and Japanese, make the most staunch and devoted converts . . . . The Annamese make better converts than either Chinese or Japanese, whose tricky character, however, they share; but they are gentler and more sympathetic; they do not possess the staunch masculinity of the Coreans.
