 Bands of insurgents attacked Tây Ninh and Tran Bang, and in one particularly galling incident the French lost one of their small warships.A band of Vietnamese mounted a hit-and-run attack on the French lorcha "Espérance" during the absence of her captain, "enseigne de vaisseau" Parfait, and lured the French vessel into an ambush.Her crew of 17 Frenchmen and Filipinos were overpowered and killed, and the insurgents burned the vessel.