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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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