Bertrand-François Mahé, comte de La Bourdonnais (11 February 1699 – 10 November 1753) was a French Navy officer, colonial administrator and nobleman who...
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island was named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, a French governor of Isle de France (modern-day Mauritius). Mahé was first visited by the...
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Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais. He learned chess in 1814 and began to take the game seriously in 1818, regularly playing at the Café de la Régence...
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belief that the name of the town was given in honour of Bertrand Francois Mahe de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), whose later fame derived in good part from...
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Given name Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699−1753), French naval officer and administrator, namesake of Mahé, Seychelles Mahé Drysdale (born...
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existed between Dupleix and Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French governor of the Isle of Bourbon (today's La Réunion). When the city of Madras...
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La Bourdonnais may refer to: Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), French naval officer Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1795–1840)...
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Mauritius between 1721 and 1735, prior to the arrival of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, most of them being Company ships. Slave traders brought...
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the East Indies during the war included: Commander, Bertrand-François Mahé, Comte de La Bourdonnais Original Squadron Achille (74 guns, only 70 guns on-ship)...
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town of the Grand Port District. Mahébourg is named after Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, one of the most successful governors of the French colonial...
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September 1746, a French Navy fleet under the command of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais appeared near Madras and started besieging the settlement...
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the French despatched a similarly-sized fleet under the Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais. After fighting an inconclusive battle the two fleets withdrew...
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same year in Port-Louis on Isle de France (Mauritius), whose governor general was Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais. There, he participated in the...
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taken refuge after the fall of Madras. He was assisted by Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais. Commanding a force of 800 Europeans and 1,000 Indian sepoys...
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T 53-class destroyer (section La Galissonnière)
net (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2013. Roche, Jean-Michel (2012). "La Bourdonnais". netmarine.net (in French). Retrieved 26 March 2013. Roche, Jean-Michel...
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code using ten coloured flags was proposed by Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais in 1738. Bourdonnais proposed hoisting the flags in groups of three...
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However, it has been claimed that the French naval officer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais sent a "solitaire" to France from the nearby island of...
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colonization, Mauritius was known as Ile de France. The French governor at that time, Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, contributed to the development...
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in 1711 Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), sailor and administrator...
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(1719–1753) (b. 1685) November 10 – Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and governor of Isle de France (Mauritius) (b. 1699) November...
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enslaved Enrique of Malacca. Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), naval officer and administrator of Isle de France (Mauritius) and Réunion...
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(Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion). The genus is named for Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699 – 1753), French governor of Mauritius 1735–1740....
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under Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, engaged each other early in the First Carnatic War. Both fleets were damaged, with La Bourdonnais putting...
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India Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company. Joseph François Dupleix...
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governor Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais coincided with the development of a prosperous economy based on sugar production. Mahé de La Bourdonnais established...
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History of Seychelles (redirect from Jean-Baptiste Queau de Quincy)
island Mahé (in honor of his patron Mahé de La Bourdonnais), and the group the Iles de la Bourdonnais. He had high hopes for the Iles de la Bourdonnais. However...
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Bowman, 18th-century American pioneer (d. 1768) February 11 Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and colonial administrator (d. 1753)...
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Réunion ibis (category Taxa named by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps)
captivity. Billiard claimed that the French administrator Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais sent a "solitaire" to France from Réunion around 1740....
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de Velde George Frederik Wreeden Camille Charles Leclerc, Chevalier de Fresne Guillaume Dufresne d' Arsel Pierre Benoît Dumas Bertrand-François Mahé de...
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Jean-Nicolas Céré (category People from the Isle de France (Mauritius))
Céré was the son of François-Toussaint Céré, a naval officer who, according to the memoirs of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, was at the age of...
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