Da Lat, High Land, Vietnam

During the 1890s, explorers in the region (including the noted bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin, protected from the famous French chemist Louis Pasteur), which was then part of the French territory of Cochin, asked the French Governor General Paul Doumer to create a resort center in the mountains. The Governor agreed. The site originally planned for the hill station was Dankia but Etienne Tardif, a member of the expedition of road construction from 1898 to 1899, suggested the current site instead. In 1907, the first hotel was built. Urban planning was conducted by Ernest Hébrard.

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French has endowed the city with villas and boulevards, and Swiss charms remain today. Hébrard includes the required health resort, golf course, parks, schools and homes, but no industry. The legacy of residential schools where children of all of Indochina were taught by priests, nuns French, and expatriates still existed as late as 1969. In 1929, the Christian and Missionary Alliance established a school (Dalat International School) for Canadian and American children of missionaries serving in South Asia. In 1965, the school moved to Bangkok, Thailand; then in 1966 to the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia and then in June 1971, moved to its current location in Georgetown, Malaysia. There were seminars Jesuits (as Pius X Pontifical College) and other commands. The elite Vietnamese National Military Academy got its first class future leaders in 1950. There was an aviation school in Cam Ly airport.

During World War II, Dalat was the capital of the Federation of Indochina, from 1939 to 1945.

In the mid 1950s, the Vietnam Association Scout established their national training courses in Da Lat.

The only involvement Da Lat was during the Vietnam War was in the 1968 Tet Offensive. Heavy fighting raged from January 31 to February 9, 1968. Most of the fighting took place between the South Vietnamese units MP stationed in Da Lat and Viet Cong (VC) forces. The US lawmakers were also involved in the fighting and suffered multiple nodes in a rocket attack on their compound. Defeats and victories alternating between the two during the sporadic-yet-intense fighting. However, the South Vietnamese deputies were finally able to regain control of Da Lat. It is stated that nearly 200 VC were killed in action (KIAS) during this battle. Although the South Vietnamese Forces MP were known to have far fewer nodes, their injury list has grown steadily throughout the engagement because periods of low supplies and support. What is ultimately saved the South Vietnamese MPs was the fact that they held strong defensive positions throughout Dalat from beginning to end the fighting.