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    Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (/ˈbuːɡənvɪl/, US also /ˌbuːɡæ̃ˈviːl/, French: [lwi ɑ̃twan də buɡɛ̃vil]; 12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a...
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  • brother to Louis Antoine de Bougainville French ship Bougainville, various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville Bougainville-class...
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    periods. The name of the region originates from French admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who reached it in 1768. Bougainvillean separatism dates to...
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    Français de Bali Louis Antoine de Bougainville (LFB, Indonesian: Sekolah Perancis Bali), also known as the École Internationale Française de Bali (EIFB)...
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    Panthéon (redirect from Panthéon de Paris)
    the explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville and the painter Joseph-Marie Vien, the teacher of Napoleon's official painter, Jacques-Louis David. During...
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    explorer, and Le Bougainville is named after Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a French admiral and explorer. Built by VARD, Le Bougainville had her hull constructed...
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    tests on Mururoa. Because of its shape, French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville named it "Île de la Harpe" (Harp Island). Hao is 920 km (570 mi) east...
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    Potentien, baron de Bougainville (26 December 1781 – 18 October 1846) was a French naval officer. He was the son of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. He became...
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    Strait of Magellan. In July the following year the expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived. He named the island Île aux Marteaux, "Hammer Island"...
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    tools. The first European contact with Bougainville was in 1768, when the French explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived and named the main island after...
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  • philosophical dialogues written by Denis Diderot, inspired by Louis Antoine de Bougainville's Voyage autour du monde. It was written in 1772 for the journal...
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    with Colonel Chevalier de Levis now as his second-in-command and Capitaine Louis Antoine de Bougainville as his new aide-de-camp. Upon Montcalm's arrival...
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    contemporaries, was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of circumnavigation in 1766–1769. Commerson was...
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    brother and adopted son of Ereti, the chief of the village where Louis Antoine de Bougainville anchored. He became the foremost intermediary between the Tahitians...
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    was named after French admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who reached it in 1768. The German Empire placed Bougainville under a protectorate in 1886...
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    accompanied Louis Antoine de Bougainville on his voyage of exploration. He died of illness in Timor in 1770. Véron was the astronomer on Bougainville's ship...
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    Navy admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville during his voyage of circumnavigation of the Earth, and first published by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789...
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    reached the Samoan islands in the early 18th century. In 1768, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville named them the Navigator Islands. The United States Exploring...
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    Dubigeon shipyard at Nantes and completed by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at Saint Nazaire. Bougainville was launched on 28 January 1986 and commissioned on...
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    1765. She is most famous for being the exploration ship of Louis Antoine de Bougainville between 1766 and 1769. She also served in the American and French...
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    Thirteen ships of the French Navy have been named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville: A privateer (1797–1800) captured by HMS Amazon on 14 February...
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    took part in the 1763–64 expedition under Louis Antoine de Bougainville that established the Port Saint Louis settlement in the Falkland Islands, and published...
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    Malouines—the name given to the islands by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville in 1764. Bougainville, who founded the islands' first settlement, named...
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    the same HMS Dolphin which Byron had earlier sailed in) and Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1766). Thomas Falkner, a Jesuit who resided near forty years...
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    relations.: 45–84, 104, 135  On 2 April 1768, the expedition of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, aboard Boudeuse and Etoile on the first French circumnavigation...
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    member of Vanuatu's francophone minority, Simeon went to Lycée Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, but did not seek higher education. In the 2016 general election...
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    April 1768 with the ships Boudeuse and Etoile captained by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. In the 1790s European whalers arrived bringing with them alcohol...
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    frightened by the firing of the ship's cannon and jumped overboard. Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who established the first settlement in the Falkland Islands...
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    islands in 1722. This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768. Contact was limited...
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    all their slaves in full view of the Spaniards.: 46  By 1757 Louis Antoine de Bougainville considered that the Panis nation "plays ... the same role in...
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