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He traveled under various names, and employers did not keep very good records back then. Not too much is known about his time here.

First in France, then the UK, then in the US before heading back to France. He spent about eight years working and traveling, mostly as a cook or a baker, but also as a dishwasher. So, he may have been looking for a way to broaden his horizons and see the world, rather than embarking out of poverty or desperation.Īnd see the world he did. But finding his prospects stymied by imperial French control of his homeland, he was probably already politically active. He was well-educated and came from a relatively prosperous middle-class family. Ho Chi Minh put to sea from French-occupied Vietnam at the age of 21, in 1911, to work as a cook on a steamship. What people might find most surprising is that he once lived in the United States: in Boston and in New York City.

But it seems he long had an admiration for the US and repeatedly sought the country's help in the decades before the Vietnam War. He led Vietnam's communist revolution against French colonial rule and then took on the US.

The founding father of modern Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh.