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    territory of Pondichéry. In 1936, the population of the colony totalled 298,851 inhabitants, of which 63% (187,870) lived in the territory of Pondichéry. France...
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  • Guillaume Léonard de Bellecombe (20 February 1728 – 28 February 1792) was Governor General of Réunion, Saint-Domingue and Pondichéry, and a Republican...
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    (under Lieutenant Lusignan), and seven transports carrying the Régiment de Pondichéry, under Brigadier General Thomas Conway. All these ships had a copper...
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    " FitzJames 1778, p. 47. "De là nous marchâmes, le 15 Avril, au pont de Clady, sur la rivière de Strabane, dont les Rebelles, au nombre de dix mille, vouloient...
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    Catalogue des manuscrits des anciennes archives de l'Inde française ..., vol. 1, Leroux : Pondichéry, Bibliothèque coloniale, p. 129 Grant, R. G. (2017)...
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  • Bank, East of Gratia and Praslin, before arriving at Pondichéry and Manila. He was back at Isle de France on 15 April 1774. Grenier was made a Knight in...
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  • service on 3 August 1778 to assist in the defense of Pondichéry. The British captured her during the Siege of Pondicherry (1778), and took her into service...
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  • Equatorial Africa French Chad Oubangui-Chari French Congo French India (Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé and Yanaon) French Indochina Annam Tonkin...
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    Yanaon (redirect from Chef de Yanaon)
    "Lettres & conventions des gouverneurs de Pondichéry avec différents princes hindous, 1666 à 1793". Société de l'histoire de l'Inde française. 1914. V. R. Jagapati...
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  • the 24-gun Lawriston. During the Siege of Pondicherry in 1778, Tronjoli had lost some of his ships and escaped to Isle de France with the survivors, arriving...
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    being the flagship of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez during the Anglo-French War. She was built in 1778 at Toulon on a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise...
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    regained the five establishments captured by the British during the war (Pondichéry, Mahe, Karaikal, Yanam and Chandernagar) but was prevented from erecting...
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    Akbar. Colonies were established in India's Chandernagore (1673) and Pondichéry in the south east (1674), and later at Yanam (1723), Mahe (1725), and...
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    increased the size of the territories under its control. The enclaves of Pondichéry, Karaikal, Yanam, Mahé, and Chandernagore were returned to France in 1816...
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    their forces were broken and after another siege of Limerick, they surrendered to William's general Godard de Ginkel. The war in Ireland formally ended...
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  • 16-gun corvette Fortune (under Captain de Lusignan), and seven transports carrying the Régiment de Pondichéry, under Brigadier General Thomas Conway....
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    Pigneaux's plan failed to materialize. He went to the French territory of Pondichéry (India), and secured two ships, a regiment of Indian troops, and a handful...
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    Rajgopalachari. Subsequently, the French ceded Chandernagore in 1951, and Pondichéry and its remaining Indian colonies by 1954. Indian troops annexed Goa and...
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  • as an enlightened despot. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry. 1791 – A Vodou ceremony,...
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