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    Île de Gorée (French pronunciation: [ildəɡoʁe]; "Gorée Island"; Wolof: Beer Dun) is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city...
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    Dakar (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Dakar is flanked by four small islands, île de Yoff, Île de N'Gor, Îles de la Madeleine and Île de Gorée. Île de N'Gor is on the northern shore of N'Gor...
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    670774; -17.399603 The Historical Museum of Senegal in Gorée (French: Musée historique du Sénégal à Gorée) is a museum attached to the Institut fondamental...
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    d'arrondissement in Dakar-Plateau: Plateau/Gorée, Médina, Fass-Gueule Tapée-Colobane, Fann Point-E, and Île de Gorée.[citation needed] The sous-préfet of the...
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    Plateau/Gorée. The smallest one is the commune d'arrondissement of Île de Gorée (1,034 inhabitants), in the arrondissement of Plateau/Gorée. (in French)...
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    their barbettes were sited on the Île de Gorée; due to their prominence they have become known as the "Les canons de Navaronne" after the eponymous 1961...
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  • Photographiques – Prisme éditions, 2019 Île de Gorée Island, – Prisme éditions, 2014 Chasseurs Nagô du Royaume de Bantè, Fondation George Arthur Forrest...
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    Belley was said to have been born on 1 July 1746 or 1747 on the island of Gorée, Senegal, but the precise dates of his birth and death are uncertain. At...
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    Indian Ocean. She called in at Gorée and Île de France (now Mauritius) before arriving in Pondicherry. She returned via Île de France, Bourbon (now Réunion)...
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    Île-d'Aix to Mauritius, as weel as to Saint-Denis and to Saint-Paul on Ile Bourbon (now Réunion). She returned to France carrying Marshal Bouvet de Lozier...
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  • L'embarquement de bois d'ébène (2012) Mémoire de l'esclavage - Tome 4 : Ile de Gorée (2014) Mémoire de l'esclavage - Tome 5 : Colonies des Antilles et de l'Océan...
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  • what is now Senegal; around this time, the Dutch ceded a settlement at Ile de Gorée to the French. The French established a mission in 1687 at Assinie, near...
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    française, n° 8032, 2003. (in French) Joseph Roger de Benoist et Abdoulaye Camara (et al.), Histoire de Gorée, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2003, p. 12. This...
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    Roastbeef Island Seal Island Shark Island Sinclair's Island South Long Island Gorée Îles des Madeleines Morfil Banana Islands Bunce Island Sherbro Island (now...
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  • Annobón Cabinda Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) Ceuta Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá Gorée (in Senegal) Malindi Mombasa Algarve Ultramar (Morocco) Agadir Alcacer...
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  • as the French trading posts in India and the slaving station on the Île de Gorée in what is now Senegal. List of colonial and departmental heads of Martinique...
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  • Tenerife, Gorée, Juda, Île du Prince (possibly Prince Edward Island, Cap-Français, Le Havre July 1778 to 1779: Rochefort, Lorient, Gorée, Groix, Guyanne, Rochefort...
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    Arbre du Conseil près de Dacar Tisserand à Gorée Hameau de Hann dans l'anse de Gorée Une habitation à Gorée (Maison d'Anna Colas) Rio de Janeiro dessiné du...
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  • 420028 Oc (4) R 12s. 11 metres (36 ft) 24412 D3013 8 Île de Gorée Lighthouse 1843 est. Île de Gorée 14°39′50.4″N 17°23′52.5″W / 14.664000°N 17.397917°W...
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  •  United Kingdom The ship departed from Liverpool for the Rio Nuñez and Île de Gorée, French Senegal. No further trace, presumed foundered with the loss of...
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    The Capture of Belle Île was a British amphibious expedition to capture the French island of Belle Île off the Brittany coast in 1761, during the Seven...
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    Goree Island. Principal cities of interest include the capital, Dakar; Saint-Louis, an old colonial town; and the Mouride holy centre of Touba. Gorée...
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  • Djoudj Niokolo-Koba Gorée Saint-Louis Saloum Delta The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites...
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  • ships ran the Royal Navy close blockade to arrive at Île de France. In 1810 Governor Decaen of Île de France had coins struck from the silver captured with...
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  • 1779, bound for Madras and Bengal. Ganges was at Madeira on 5 April and Gorée on 10 May. She reached Madras on 18 September and arrived at Kedgeree on...
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  • Saint-Louis in 1825. He, at some point, was in command of a schooner in Gorée, Senegal. As British, American and Dutch voyages began solidifying their...
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    Seven Years' War (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Île d'Orléans across the St. Lawrence River from Quebec, enabling them to commence the 3-month siege that ensued. The French under the Marquis de Montcalm...
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  • The squadron sailed to the Cape Verde Islands, took the slaving island of Gorée (off Senegal) from the Dutch, then sailed fast to the Antilles. D'Estrées...
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    open a school on Île Bourbon, in the Indian Ocean. In 1819 she established a mission presence at Saint-Louis, Senegal and in Gorée, Senegal, where she...
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  • back to Gorée on 5 September 1695. From there they sailed to the Cape Verde Islands, to Saint Anne Island on the coast of Brazil and then to Rio de Janeiro...
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