 He followed up this victory with the Capture of Mỹ Tho (12 April 1861).Charner had been sent out to the Far East for the war with China, and had not expected to be required to fight a campaign in Cochinchina as well.Believing that he had broken Vietnamese resistance with his victories at Ky Hoa and Mỹ Tho, he asked to return to France in the summer of 1861.