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    11.9318; 79.8331 Fort Louis or Fort Saint Louis was a French fort that stood in Pondicherry on the eastern coast of India. The fort was built around 1701...
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  • Fort Louis may refer to several historic French settlements including: Fort Louis (La Rochelle), built by Louis XIII in 1620. Fort Louis (Pondicherry)...
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  • Fort St. Louis or Fort Saint Louis may refer to: Fort Saint Louis (Newfoundland), Placentia, Newfoundland Fort Saint Louis, a fort in what is now Moose...
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    Fort-Louis (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ lwi]) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It acquired its name and its...
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    Fort Louis (or Fort St. Louis) is a historic French military fort on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. It is located in Marigot, the capital of the...
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    colonists to settle near the fort. The European settlement of Mobile began with French colonists, who in 1702 constructed Fort Louis de la Louisiane, at Twenty-seven...
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    island's settlement in 1659. It was originally known as Saint Louis of the Fort (St-Louis-du-Fort) after its stronghold and to distinguish it from other places...
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  • was the location of the French settlement La Mobile and the associated Fort Louis de La Louisiane, in the French colony of New France in North America,...
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    Fort Louis was a Royal fort built just outside the walls of the Huguenot city in La Rochelle. The fort was a source of great tension between the Huguenots...
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    Fort Saint Louis (often hyphenated as Fort Saint-Louis) is a seaside fortress in Fort-de-France, Martinique. The present-day fort has evolved from earlier...
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    The siege of Fort-Louis (14 October – 14 November 1793) saw a force composed of Habsburg Austrians, Hessians and Bavarians led by Franz von Lauer lay siege...
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    Fort Saint Louis was a slave fort built by the Compagnie du Sénégal in Saint Louis, Senegal in 1659. The fort surrendered on 30 April, 1758, and it was...
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  • Fort Saint-Louis, Texas, was founded in 1685 by French explorer René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle and members of his expedition, including Jesuit missionary...
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    De Tonti tried to convince the Natchez to relocate near their new fort, Fort St. Louis, to conduct trade with one another. La Salle departed for France...
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    Cap-Haïtien (founded as Cap-Français) in Haiti, Saint-Pierre and Fort Saint-Louis (formerly as Fort Royal) in Martinique, Castries (founded as Carénage) in Saint...
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    Fort Saint Louis was a French fort built in the 17th century on Newfoundland at the time of the New France. The construction began in 1690 for a new French...
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    decided to have Fort Saint Louis built to protect the city against enemy attacks. The fort was soon destroyed, and rebuilt in 1669, when Louis XIV appointed...
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    harvest. Louis XV therefore ordered the colony to reduce its defensive perimeter to the valley of the Saint Lawrence River, evacuating all forts in Ohio...
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    The Battle of St. Louis, also known as the Attack on St. Louis and the Battle of Fort San Carlos, was fought on May 26, 1780, between British-allied Indians...
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    settlement in what is now Alabama on the west side of the Mobile River, called Fort Louis de la Mobile (or "Mobille"). He also established a deepwater port nearby...
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    and included Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln, and Fort Duncan. Originally, 10 forts had been proposed...
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    June 12, 2011. Retrieved May 21, 2011. Higginbotham, Jay. Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711, pp.106–07. Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977...
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  • Fort St. Louis (also known as Fort St. Francois a Canso, Fort Chedabuctou, Fort St. Louis a Chedabuctou) was a French fort built in Chedabucto, Acadia...
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  • Hull Fort Jackson Fort Landrum Fort Leslie Fort Likens Fort Louis de la Mobile Fort Madison Fort McClellan Fort Mims Fort Mitchell Fort Morgan Fort Novosel...
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    Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac (category Order of Saint Louis recipients)
    family arrived at Fort Louis, Louisiana (now Mobile, Alabama), after a tiring crossing. In 1714, Crozat recommended the construction of forts along the Mississippi...
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    the fort was first considered during a build-up of the French armed forces undertaken by Louis XIV between 1661 and 1667.[citation needed] Fort Boyard...
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    Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil), was King...
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  • of Martinique Fort Saint Louis (Martinique), a fortification at Fort-de-France Fort Royal (Newfoundland), a fortification in Canada Fort-Liberté, a fortification...
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    St. Louis Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Louis de Fort-de-France) is a Catholic cathedral in Martinique, an overseas department of France. It was...
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    1630–31 and the Fronde in 1648–1652, the young King Louis XIV had two large forts, fort St. Jean and Fort St. Nicholas, built at the harbour entrance to control...
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