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Name: marie-galante

Type: Cluster

Start: 1760 AD

End: 1815 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Marie-Galante (Great Britain)
  • Marie-Galante
  • Establishment


  • January 1760: British forces captured the French-controlled island of Marie-Galante in the Caribbean.
  • Chronology


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    1. Seven Years´ War


    Was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers, and was fought primarily in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific. At the end of the war the main winner was Great Britain, that obtained territories in North America, the Caribbean and India, becoming the most powerful maritime and colonial of the European powers.

    1.1.Treaty of Paris (1763)

    Was a treaty signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.

  • February 1763: Treaty of Paris (1763): Britain restored Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Gorée, and the Indian factories to France.

  • 2. 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.

    2.1.War of the First Coalition

    Were a series of wars between the Kingdom of France (later the French Republic) and several European Monarchies. The French Revolution had deteriorated the relations of France with the other European countries, that tried several times to invade France in order to crash the revolutionary government.

  • January 1793: Marie-Galante, which was Republican, separated itself from the royalist government of Guadeloupe.

  • 2.2.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.

  • January 1795: British conquest of the island of Marie-Galante.
  • January 1809: The Royal Navy took possession of Marie-Galante to stop French privateers using its port.
  • January 1816: The British returned Marie-Galante Island to France.

  • 2.3.War of the Second Coalition

    Was the second war that saw revolutionary France against most of the European monarchies, led by Britain, Austria, and Russia, and including the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Naples, and various German monarchies. Prussia did not join this coalition, and Spain supported France.

    2.3.1.Treaty of Amiens

    Was a treaty between France and Great Britain that ended the War of the Second Coalition.

  • March 1802: The Treaty of Amiens in 1802 restored the island of Marie-Galante to France. With the restoration, slavery too was reinstated .

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1816: The British returned Marie-Galante Island to France.
  • Selected Sources


  • Kitchin, T. (1778). The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe
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