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Rule of West Indies

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

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1802Date range
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Chronological records

1802

Henry Addington Sidmouth, 1st1802

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

Henry Addington Sidmouth, 1st

Provenance

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