History for the day

Rico says that those of us of a certain age will remember the guy, but anyone born in the last twenty years probably won't: General Vo Nguyen Giap

The BBC has his obituary:

Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died at the age of 102.
His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 effectively ended French colonial rule in the region. General Giap also published a number of works on military strategy.
He was born in the central Quang Binh province of what was then French Indochina. At the age of fourteen, he joined a clandestine resistance movement. By 1938, he was a member of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist party and fled to China with Ho, ahead of the Japanese invasion of Vietnam.
General Giap organized an army from his Chinese exile and returned to Indochina to wage guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese.
After his role in the war against the French, General Giap is also remembered for the Tet Offensive against American forces in 1968, often cited as one of the factors that led to the Americans' withdrawal, when his forces attacked more than forty provincial capitals and entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, briefly capturing the US embassy.
After the war, General Giap retained his position as defense minister, and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1976, retiring from government six years later.