Đà Nẵng Museum

This guide to the Da Nang Museum centers on General Nguyen Tri Phuong, who in 1858 met a French and Spanish fleet's opening attack on Vietnam not with open battle but by digging his men into these riverside earthworks. You'll hear how his guerrillas picked off soldiers and sank warships over eighteen months, and about the emperor who sent him to hold this stretch of the Han River. The guide also follows what became of Phuong years later, defending a different citadel. The cannons on display were unearthed from these same ramparts.