Phủ Lý
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Phủ Lý is the capital city of Hà Nam Province of Vietnam 60 km south of Hanoi on the river Đáy.
History
Phủ Lý was taken by the French canonnière l'Espingole and 28 men captained by Adrien-Paul Balny d'Avricourt on October 26 1873, shortly before Balny's death together with Francis Garnier at Hanoi's West Gate."Après la prise de la citadelle de Hanoï par Francis Garnier le 20 novembre 1873, il participe à l'occupation du delta du fleuve Rouge, s'emparant notamment de Hung-Yen le 24 octobre, puis Phu-ly le 26, Haï-Djuong le 3 décembre."
In the aftermath of World War II, Phủ Lý was where a significant number of VNQDĐ leaders were captured by the Việt Minh in 1946.Van Dao Hoang Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang: A Contemporary History of a National Struggle: 1927-1954 Pittsburgh 2008 Page 333 "However, during their retreat, many were arrested by the VC military force and public security when they arrived at Phủ Lý. They were then taken to Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An for detention. Included among the prisoners were Đỗ Văn, Bùi Anh Tuan and Mrs. Đặng Trần Hồ. Those who decided to stay had to defend their headquarters and confront their enemies, because the VC continued to terrorize and execute them." The city was attacked by retreating French forces on June 30 1954, shortly before the country was liberated.Nguyen Công Luan Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier 2012 "the retreating route of the French forces launched its bloody attacks at Phủ Lý, a small town thirty miles south of Hà Nội."
It was almost completely destroyed by the Americans in five days of bombing between July 14 and November 5, 1966.Liberation: an independent monthly Volumes 11-12 1966 "Phu Ly was attacked on six different occasions, five of them between July 14 and November 5, 1966 (when I happened to be in the outskirts)."Elizabeth Jelinek Boardman The Phoenix trip: notes on a Quaker mission to Haiphong 1985 "We knew that Phu Ly was a city of 7,600 people that lay about thirty five miles south of Hanoi. We also knew that it had been completely destroyed six months before in a series of air attacks lasting five days."
Michael Maclear writes of the area afterwards as 'a wasteland without life':
:"The inhabitants would have had no warning of the rain of bombs. Squadrons of B-52s flying six miles high, unseen and unheard, would systematically obliterate sections of their target, day after day. Unlike Hanoi, which was ringed with Soviet SAM missiles, here in the rural areas there was no adequate defense."Michael Maclear, Guerrilla Nation: My Wars In and Out of Vietnam (Dundurn, 2013) pages 59-60.
Climate
{{Weather box
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|location = Phủ Lý
|Jan high C = 19.5
|Feb high C = 20.3
|Mar high C = 22.8
|Apr high C = 27.1
|May high C = 31.2
|Jun high C = 33.1
|Jul high C = 33.0
|Aug high C = 31.8
|Sep high C = 30.6
|Oct high C = 28.5
|Nov high C = 25.3
|Dec high C = 21.7
|year high C = 27.1
|Jan mean C = 16.4
|Feb mean C = 17.4
|Mar mean C = 20.0
|Apr mean C = 23.7
|May mean C = 27.2
|Jun mean C = 29.0
|Jul mean C = 29.2
|Aug mean C = 28.4
|Sep mean C = 27.2
|Oct mean C = 24.8
|Nov mean C = 21.5
|Dec mean C = 18.0
|year mean C = 23.6
|Jan low C = 14.3
|Feb low C = 15.6
|Mar low C = 18.1
|Apr low C = 21.5
|May low C = 24.4
|Jun low C = 26.1
|Jul low C = 26.4
|Aug low C = 25.8
|Sep low C = 24.7
|Oct low C = 22.3
|Nov low C = 19.0
|Dec low C = 15.5
|year low C = 21.2
|Jan record high C = 32.8 |Jan record low C = 5.2
|Feb record high C = 36.9 |Feb record low C = 5.9
|Mar record high C = 37.3 |Mar record low C = 6.9
|Apr record high C = 41.8 |Apr record low C = 12.2
|May record high C = 40.1 |May record low C = 17.1
|Jun record high C = 41.0 |Jun record low C = 19.4
|Jul record high C = 40.4 |Jul record low C = 20.8
|Aug record high C = 38.5 |Aug record low C = 21.8
|Sep record high C = 37.0 |Sep record low C = 16.3
|Oct record high C = 35.0 |Oct record low C = 14.0
|Nov record high C = 35.2 |Nov record low C = 9.5
|Dec record high C = 31.5 |Dec record low C = 5.5
|year record high C = 41.8 |year record low C = 5.2
|rain colour = green
|Jan rain mm = 33.5
|Feb rain mm = 29.7
|Mar rain mm = 56.4
|Apr rain mm = 87.6
|May rain mm = 209.1
|Jun rain mm = 243.2
|Jul rain mm = 257.8
|Aug rain mm = 307.6
|Sep rain mm = 310.0
|Oct rain mm = 215.5
|Nov rain mm = 78.6
|Dec rain mm = 34.3
|year rain mm = 1862.7
|Jan rain days = 10.5
|Feb rain days = 13.6
|Mar rain days = 17.8
|Apr rain days = 14.5
|May rain days = 14.9
|Jun rain days = 14.9
|Jul rain days = 15.5
|Aug rain days = 16.8
|Sep rain days = 14.8
|Oct rain days = 12.0
|Nov rain days = 7.9
|Dec rain days = 6.6
|year rain days = 159.4
|Jan humidity = 84.3
|Feb humidity = 86.6
|Mar humidity = 88.6
|Apr humidity = 88.2
|May humidity = 85.1
|Jun humidity = 82.2
|Jul humidity = 82.0
|Aug humidity = 85.9
|Sep humidity = 85.9
|Oct humidity = 83.0
|Nov humidity = 81.5
|Dec humidity = 80.8
|year humidity = 84.5
|Jan sun = 70.6
|Feb sun = 43.4
|Mar sun = 42.9
|Apr sun = 86.1
|May sun = 176.3
|Jun sun = 170.5
|Jul sun = 185.0
|Aug sun = 164.5
|Sep sun = 162.7
|Oct sun = 151.6
|Nov sun = 131.6
|Dec sun = 113.9
|year sun = 1497.2
|source 1 = Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology{{cite web|title=Vietnam Institute for Building Science and Technology|url=https://datafiles.chinhphu.vn/cpp/files/vbpq/2022/10/02-bxd.pdf |lang=en}}
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Gallery
file:Ga Phủ Lý, Hà Nam.JPG|Phủ Lý railway station, Hà Nam
file:Quốc lộ 21B, đoạn Phủ Lý đi Nam Định.JPG|21B National Highway, the road from Phủ Lý to Nam Định
file:Trung tâm TP.Phủ Lý, Hà Nam.JPG|Phủ Lý City Center, Hà Nam
References
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{{Cities in Vietnam}}
{{Districts of Red River Delta}}
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Category:Districts of Hà Nam province