Battle of Gia Cuc
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The Battle of Gia Cuc, fought on 27 and 28 March 1883, during the Tonkin Campaign between the French and Vietnamese.
A French naval gun, deployed on a dyke, supports a marine infantry attack on the Vietnamese positions at Gia Cuc
Chef de bataillon Berthe de Villers (1844–83)
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 in the 1880s. Rivière's seizure of the citadel of Hanoi in April 1882 inaugurated a period of undeclared hostilities between France and Dai Nam that culminated one year later in the Tonkin campaign (1883–1886).
Rivière attempts to rescue a bogged French cannon at Paper Bridge
Paper Bridge (Pont de Papier)
Bust of Henri Rivière, Cimetière de Montmartre