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Rule of West Indies

France · Warfare / Napoleonic Wars. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1802

Napoleon I25 March 1802

Warfare / Napoleonic Wars

Under the Treaty of Amiens Britain gives up the Cape Colony (occupied after Napoleon's invasion of the United Provinces in 1803), and much of the West Indies to the Batavian Republic, and also withdraws from Egypt

Names involved

Napoleon I

Provenance

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