Cluster seychelles

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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Establishment

  • January 1757: The French began to take control starting in 1756 when a Stone of Possession was laid on Mahé by Captain Nicholas Morphey.

Chronology

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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

1.1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies

The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

  • May 1794: The British frigate "Orpheus" commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794, during the War of the First Coalition. Terms of capitulation were drawn up and the next day Seychelles was surrendered to Britain.
  • January 1811: Britain assumed full control of the Seychelles including Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches upon the surrender of Mauritius in 1810.
  • May 1814: Under the Treaty of Paris Article VIII France ceded to Britain the islands of "Tobago and Saint Lucia, and of the Isle of France and its dependencies, especially Rodrigues and Les Seychelles.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • November 1965: The islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles formed the British Indian Ocean Territory.
  • June 1976: Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches were returned to the Seychelles.
  • January 1977: Born of the Republic of Seychelles.