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    The British capture of Senegal took place in 1758 during the Seven Years' War with France, as part of a concerted British strategy to weaken the French...
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    du Sénégal in Saint Louis, Senegal in 1659. The fort surrendered on 30 April, 1758, and it was captured by Henry Marsh during the British capture of Senegal...
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    Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered...
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  • French conquest of Senegal started in 1659 with the establishment of Saint-Louis, Senegal, followed by the French capture of the island of Gorée from the...
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    HMS Nassau (1706) (category Use British English from December 2016)
    participated in the British Capture of Senegal, captained by Captain James Sayer. Nassau was sold out of the navy in 1770. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1...
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  • Henry Marsh (naval officer) (category Year of birth missing)
    during the British capture of Senegal in 1758. "Henry Marsh (d.1772)". threedecks.org. Cy Harrison. Retrieved 20 August 2021. "1758 - British expedition...
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    The history of Senegal is commonly divided into a number of periods, encompassing the prehistoric era, the precolonial period, colonialism, and the contemporary...
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    HMS Harwich (1743) (category Use British English from January 2017)
    participated in the British Capture of Senegal, captained by Commodore Henry Marsh. Harwich was wrecked in 1760. Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p172...
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    Capture of Gorée occurred in December 1758 when a British naval expedition led by Augustus Keppel against the French island of Gorée off the coast of...
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  • April 1758 - British victory over France. British capture of Senegal April–May - Brits capture Senegal from France. Involving the fortresses of Saint-Louis...
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    capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 kilometres (200 mi) north of Senegal's...
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    result of the French victory during the American Revolutionary War. During the Napoleonic Wars, Great Britain captured French possessions in Senegal and...
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    Dakar (redirect from Capital of Senegal)
    is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was...
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    Award-nominated British producer and guitarist, collaborated with Afro-pop star Baaba Maal. While making an album with Maal in Senegal, Emmerson was struck...
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    following the Capture of Gorée and wider Capture of Senegal during the Seven Years' War before being returned to France at the Treaty of Paris (1763)....
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    Quebec (redirect from Capture of Quebec)
    Île-Royale, British General James Wolfe besieged and captured the Fortress of Louisbourg. This allowed him to control access to the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
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    Cesar Picton (category Black British former slaves)
    Islamic family. In 1758, the British capture of Senegal during the Seven Years' War led to Senegambia, which was a major region of the Atlantic slave trade...
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    dispatch a British expeditionary force to capture French trading posts in Senegal; after the expedition was successful, the region under British occupation...
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  • Thomas Cumming (category American military personnel of the Seven Years' War)
    merchant of the 18th century who built up a large commercial empire in West Africa. He is best known for the role he played in the 1758 Capture of Senegal in...
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  • HMS Senegal was a sloop of 183 tons (formerly named Racehorse) that the Royal Navy purchased in 1777 and armed with 16 guns. The French captured her on...
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    Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, and the Faidherbe Bridge over the Sénégal River in Senegal. In 1861 he attended and graduated the École Polytechnique in Paris...
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    of World War II. The British Military and the British Secret Service laid out "measures to be taken in the event of an invasion of Holland and Belgium...
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    Gambia River. The British Empire occupied The Gambia when an expedition led by Augustus Keppel landed there following the capture of Senegal in 1758. The 1783...
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  • conflict with the Trarza, capturing several British merchant vessels. As of 1916, all that remained of the city was a small group of huts. Portendick at GEOnet...
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    with the British capture of Charleston being a major setback for southern Patriots; however, a Franco-American force surrounded the British army at Yorktown...
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    the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Its museum, which was opened in 1962 and curated until Boubacar...
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    resumed war with Britain resulted in the British capture of practically all remaining French colonies. These were restored at the Treaty of Amiens in 1802...
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    The people of the British Overseas Territories are British Nationals. Most of the overseas territories distinguish between those British nationals who...
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  • Senegambia (category Geography of Senegal)
    Gorée was captured by the British, who held it until 1763. In 1765, the British formed the Senegambia Province. In 1778, during the American War of Independence...
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    back expansion of the Sahara desert, by planting a wall of trees stretching across the entire Sahel from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal. The original...
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