 Henri Nicol

Henri Paul Hipolito Nicol was an officer of the French Navy in the 19th century.Based on the ship "Minerva" of the French Oriental Fleet, he deserted when the ship was anchored at Yokohama harbour, with his friend Eugène Collache to rally other French officers, led by Jules Brunet, who had embraced the cause of the Bakufu in the Boshin War.