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    La Réunion, officially Department of La Réunion, is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene...
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    France. There is another statue of La Bourdonnais in the port of Saint-Malo, France. In Saint-Denis, Réunion a statue of La Bourdonnais was also erected, and...
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    Navy and the British Royal Navy over possession of the harbour of Grand Port on Île de France (now Mauritius), as part of the Mauritius campaign during...
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    Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. With 78,535 inhabitants in 2021, La Rochelle is the most populated commune in the department...
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    following a local referendum within "Grand Cherbourg". The city revived its tourist and maritime identity through the Cité de la Mer and the opening to the public...
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    at that time, Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, contributed to the development of the city. Since Port Louis was relatively well-protected from...
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    British attempt, in August 1810, to attack Grand Port resulted in a French victory, one celebrated on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. A subsequent and much...
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    Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive maritime journeys...
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    Saigon as a major port. The La Grandière family originated in Anjou and was involved in the navy from the 18th century. Pierre-Paul de La Grandière's grandfather...
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    Populations légales de Mayotte en 2017 Répartition de la population en Polynésie française en 2017, Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française...
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    1891 and 1990 it was found mainly, in descending order, in Seine-Maritime, Manche, Île-de-France, Gironde and Isère. According to linguist Henri Moisy, the...
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    Marseille (section Port)
    of the city. Inherited from this past, the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille (GPMM) and the maritime economy are major poles of regional and national activity...
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  • attack on La Réunion with help from the active and decisive Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating and his army regulars stationed on Rodrigues. La Réunion capitulates...
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    Henri Wittmann hypothesize that Mauritian Creole is closely related to Réunion Creole. However, Philip Baker and Chris Corne have argued that Réunionnais...
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    24 July 2013 (in French) Table of Results pages 319 to 320 in La réunion de Nice à la France by Paul Gonnet, Les Éditions du Cabri, Breil-sur-Roya, 2003...
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    considered to be the coastal area of the Alpes-Maritimes department, extending from the rock formation Massif de l'Esterel to Menton, at the France–Italy border...
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    European great power conflict from 1688 to 1697 between France and the Grand Alliance. Although largely concentrated in Europe, fighting spread to colonial...
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    Lougnon, historian of Réunion Island, published a book titled Olivier Levasseur dit la Buse, piraterie et contrebande sur la route de Indes au xviiie siècle...
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  • rescued only after twenty-seven hours. He then transferred to the frigate Réunion. He later served on the flûte Barbeau, which later ferried troops to San...
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    French Guiana Miquelon-Langlade, Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Denis, Réunion Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon List of French flags Flag of France...
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    (2e RPIMa) based in Réunion part of FAZSOI. In March 1990 one radar equipped HAL Dornier 228 was ordered from India to form a maritime surveillance element...
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  • 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 "LE PARCOURS DU RELAIS DE LA FLAMME OLYMPIQUE". Paris 2024. 23 June 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2023. Maine...
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    Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811 (category Isle de France (Mauritius))
    became Réunion (French: La Réunion) once more. Culturally, the campaign captured the public imagination in Britain and France: the Battle of Grand Port is...
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    with the 6,000 men of the Alpine Maritime Army, commanded by General Jean François Cornu de La Poype, who had just taken La Valette-du-Var, and sought to...
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  • September, they entered a sheltered bay which they named "Port de Warwick" (now known as "Grand Port"). They landed and decided to name the island "Prins Mauritz...
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    French frigate Nivôse (category Maritime incidents in 2014)
    constructed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint-Nazaire, France, in 1991 and entered service in 1992. The frigate is stationed at Réunion in the Indian Ocean...
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    Cyclone Freddy (category 2020s in Réunion)
    du cyclone Freddy, les températures augmentent fortement à La Réunion : c'est l'effet de "Foehn"". Linfo.re (in French). Archived from the original on...
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    Rouen (redirect from Rouen, Seine-Maritime)
    de l'agglomération rouennaise), a subsidiary of Transdev. Rouen has its own airport. The Seine is a major axis for maritime cargo links in the Port of...
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    codes: 01 : Île-de-France region 02 : Northwest region: (Brittany, Centre-Val de Loire, Normandy, Pays de la Loire) and "Indian Ocean" (Réunion and Mayotte)...
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    that may pose maritime hazards. The main island is of volcanic origin. The mountains with the greatest prominence include: Piton de la Petite Rivière...
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