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    Réunion, officially Department of 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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    was sunk after a collision in the port of Singapore (1996) is now on display (rotting) at the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle. One of the biggest music...
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    Foshan, China Karachi, Pakistan La Possession, Réunion, France Lamentin, Guadeloupe, France Maputo, Mozambique Port Mathurin, Mauritius Pretoria, South...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Cyclone Freddy (category 2020s in Réunion)
    Retrieved 21 February 2023. "Saison cyclonique : La Réunion entre en pré-alerte jaune cyclonique à partir de 19h". Linfo.re. Archived from the original on...
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    that surround the island. The first operation was to capture Île de la Passe off Grand Port, which was successfully secured on 13 August. Shortly afterwards...
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    under the command of Admiral Van Warwyck, landed at what is now the Grand Port District and took possession of the island in 1598, renaming the uninhabited...
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    Paris (redirect from Département de Paris)
    the Promenade des Berges de la Seine, which he inaugurated in June 2013. In 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy launched the Grand Paris project, to integrate...
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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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