Naval combat between the Iphigénie and the Africaine
1455
Print L.A. Roussin, 1867
The war between France and Great Britain led to the loss in 1810 of France’s only sugar colony, the Isle of France, now Mauritius. This had a major impact on the growth of the sugar economy on Bourbon (La Réunion).
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