Jean François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (French: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa də ɡalo kɔ̃t də lapeʁuz]; variant spelling: La Pérouse; 23 August 1741 – 1788?), often...
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present-day La Perouse, including the La Perouse area. La Perouse was named after the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–88)...
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The Special Expedition (French: Expédition Particulière) was an expeditionary force deployed by France to North America to support the Thirteen Colonies...
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Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 11, 2023. "Historic Feature: La Pérouse Pinnacle". www.papahanaumokuakea.gov. Retrieved April 26, 2024. "NOAA...
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Le Puy du Fou (redirect from Le Mystère de La Pérouse)
Mystère de La Pérouse (The Mystery of La Pérouse), a recreation of the ill-fated maritime expedition led by Jean-François de La Pérouse. Guests board La Pérouse's...
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the La Pérouse expedition, who had the respect of Louis XVI. La Pérouse asked the Minister of Marine and the Colonies, Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix...
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Spate, Villalobos's crew included the pilot Juan Gaetan, credited by La Perouse for the discovery of Hawaii. Gaetan's voyage was described in similar...
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Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse is an 1800 book that gives an account of the 1791-1793 d'Entrecasteaux expedition to Australasia. The title...
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renamed La Perouse in honour of the French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (also spelt comte de La Pérouse) whose expedition foundered...
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Jacques Labillardière (redirect from Jacques-Julien Houtou de La Billardière)
Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition. He published a popular account of his journey and produced the...
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French Frigate Shoals (redirect from La perouse pinnacle)
be named after La Pérouse. La Pérouse named the shoals Basse des Frégates Françaises, the "Shoal of the French Frigates". The expedition went on to discover...
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Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux (redirect from Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, Chevalier d' Entrecasteaux)
but knew nothing of La Pérouse. He then sailed back to New Caledonia, where he anchored at Balade. The vain search for La Pérouse then resumed with Santa...
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He and his brother Ange died on the La Pérouse expedition, and their father (the wealthy court banker Jean-Joseph de Laborde) erected a blue-turquoise marble...
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same fashion as the voyages of James Cook and Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse. Some of the leading scientists at the time collected an impressive...
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Bay expedition under La Pérouse's orders. For Fleuriot de Langle's expertise, knowledge of math and astronomy, and force of character, La Pérouse chose...
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Ocean under Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, looking for the lost expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse. Kermadec was born on 12 September 1748 in Bohars, near...
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Peter Dillon (section Discovery of La Pérouse Wrecks)
explorer and writer. Dillon discovered in 1826–27 the fate of the La Pérouse expedition. Peter Dillon was born in Martinique, France, the son and namesake...
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black flint". On 10 April 1786, the French explorer Jean François de Galaup La Pérouse visited and made a detailed map of Easter Island. He described the...
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de Lesseps, was the French chargé d'affaires. This uncle was an old companion of Jean-François de La Pérouse and the only survivor of the expedition in...
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and the frigates Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart, Amazone under La Pérouse, and Bellone. Amazone, which constituted the vanguard of the fleet, arrived...
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and the frigates Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart, Amazone under La Pérouse, and Bellone. Amazone, which constituted the vanguard of the fleet, arrived...
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Antoinette, and was also taken on as the official artist of the La Perouse expedition, on which he disappeared. His skull was thought to have been found...
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transliteration of the name of the Marquis de Castries, who sponsored the expedition of the French explorer La Pérouse, who was the first European to sight...
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He disappeared in the Pacific whilst a member of the La Pérouse expedition. Joseph Boissieu (de) La Martinière was from the Boissieu-Perrin family, an old...
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1-39 Bunnerong Road, La Perouse, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is also known as Chinese Gardens La Perouse, Phillip Bay, Matraville...
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Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de la Pérouse. Labillardière collected specimens at Recherche Bay during the d'Entrecasteaux expedition in 1792. The d'Entrecasteaux...
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and the frigates Surveillante under Villeneuve Cillart, Amazone under La Pérouse, and Bellone. Amazone, which constituted the vanguard of the fleet, arrived...
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Indians in Arizona and Southern California. Jean-François de la Pérouse, on his expedition around the world in 1786, describes the ill treatment of natives...
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year, he visited Port Jackson and Sydney where he set up a monument to La Pérouse and erected a grave for le Receveur in Botany Bay. He became acquainted...
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Chevalier de Langle". Bulletin de la Société Académique de Brest (in French). Brest: Société académique de Brest. 1890. OCLC 40366595. "La Pérouse and the...
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