page_title: Henri Rivière (naval officer)
hierarchical_section_title: Henri Rivière (naval officer)
caption_attribution_description: Salted paper print of Henri Rivière
context_page_description: Henri Laurent Rivière was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and China that culminated two years later in the Sino-French War.
context_section_description: Henri Laurent Rivière (1827 – 1883) was a French naval officer and a writer who is chiefly remembered today for advancing the French conquest of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) in the 1880s.  Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and China that culminated two years later in the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885).
caption: Henri Rivière by Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon circa 1859.
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