Charles Rigault de Genouilly
Military Person
1807 – 1873
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Who was Charles Rigault de Genouilly?
Pierre-Louis-Charles Rigault de Genouilly was a nineteenth-century French admiral. He fought with distinction in the Crimean War and the Second Opium War, but is chiefly remembered today for his command of French and Spanish forces during the opening phase of the Cochinchina campaign, which inaugurated the French conquest of Vietnam.
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