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    Jean-Paul Mascarene (c. 1684 – 22 January 1760) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as commander of the 40th Regiment of Foot...
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    The Mascarene Islands (English: /mæskəˈriːn/, French: Mascareignes) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean...
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    Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley 1740s: The Mandan Indians...
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    de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith Concentrated hunting...
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  • de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Charles Watson Louisbourg is returned...
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    Shirreff Peter Boudre Paul Mascarene William Skene Alexander Cosby John Adams William Shirreff Erasmus James Philipps Paul Mascarene William Winniett William...
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    Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley First Fort Dauphin...
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    de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: James Douglas Typhoid fever epidemic...
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    during King George's War. The siege is noted for Governor of Nova Scotia Paul Mascarene successfully defending the last British outpost in the colony and for...
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  • (1919–1942), German Luftwaffe ace, penitent for the killings he committed. Paul Mascarene (1684–1760), French-born British army officer. Peter Mawney, colonel...
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    Louisiana: Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Henry Medley First scientific report...
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  • Armstrong (continued) ← 1739 Alexander Cosby (acting governor) 1739 1740 Paul Mascarene (acting governor) 1740 1749 4. Richard Philipps (continued) ← 1749 5...
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    de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Thomas Smith May 3 – News of the...
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    de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: Richard Edwards 16 June 1745 - After...
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    Hampshire's Acting Governor John Wentworth, Nova Scotia's military commander Paul Mascarene, and many representatives of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The treaty that...
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    de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial Governor of Nova Scotia: Paul Mascarene Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland: James Douglas Bt 11 February – At...
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    Prince of Wales. When he was a Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, Paul Mascarene translated Molière's French play The Misanthrope in to English and produced...
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    Scotia Documents; Acadian French, pgs. 28-9. Accessed 21 December 2020 Paul Mascarene, "Description of Nova Scotia" (1720), Nova Scotia Documents; Acadian...
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    34, 1724-1725. Accessed 22 March 2021 "718 vi Instructions of Major Paul Mascarene, 31st Aug., 1725(....)" Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and...
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    harbour outside the Port Royal habitation on November 14, 1606. In 1743, Paul Mascarene, the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, translated Molière's La Misanthrope...
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    House of Assembly from 1759 to 1760. On the retirement of Lt. Gov. Paul Mascarene, Major Philipps became commander of the forces at Annapolis Royal, Nova...
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    Scotia, Paul Mascarene, for support in the defence of Annapolis Royal. In response to the fall of Canso and a second, urgent request from Mascarene, Shirley...
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    trusted by both Cornwallis and Hopson." He is buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Church (Halifax). Lawrence was born in Plymouth (Devon) on 14 December 1709...
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    November 10 – William Black, Methodist minister (d.1834) January 22 : Paul Mascarene, governor of Nova Scotia To avoid frostbite, orders are issued that...
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    essentially the same agreement, often referred to as Mascarene’s Treaty (named for military officer Paul Mascarene). The 1725–26 Treaties would be the first peace...
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    William Shirley Pepperell St., Halifax William Pepperell Mascarene Ave., Halifax, Paul Mascarene Port Hawkesbury, Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke Morris St...
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    canvas, 1724. Royal Sussex Regiment Museum Portrait of Major General Paul Mascarene, 1729 (LACMA) Samuel Sewall, 1729, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Edward...
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    the provincial troops were drilled in the arts of siege warfare by Paul Mascarene, a Huguenot officer in the British Army. A band of Iroquois was also...
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    available to meet this threat, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Mascarene. Mascarene refused to surrender to Le Loutre. Le Loutre's party eventually...
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    of East Africa. Other Indian Ocean islands near Madagascar include the Mascarene Islands (split between the Republic of Mauritius and the French department...
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