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	Louis Antoine De Bougainville - LoveToKnow 1911
		LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE (1729-1811), French navigator, was born at Paris on the 11th of November 1729.
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy.
		Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands, which belongs to Germany; and to the strait which divides 'it from the British island of Choiseul.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy.
		Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville Summary
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) was a French soldier and explorer.
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville was born in Paris on Nov. 12, 1729, and early established a reputation as a mathematician.
		Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville at AllExperts
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de Bougainville (November 12 1729 – August 20 1811) was a French navigator and military commander.
		Denis Diderot's book, SupplÃ©ment au voyage de Bougainville, retells the story of Bougainville's landing on Tahiti, narrated by an anonymous reader to one of his friends: this fictional approach to Bougainville's expedition, along with the description of the Tahitians as noble savages, is meant to criticise Western ways of living and thinking.
		Bougainville's name is given to the largest member of the Solomon Islands; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.
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	BOUGAINVILLE, Louis Antoine de
		During the American Revolution Bougainville served with the French force in America led by the French naval officer Comte François Joseph Paul de Grasse.
		Bougainville was chosen a member of the Institute de France in 1796, the year it was created.
		Napoleon made Bougainville a senator and count of the empire and a member of the Legion of Honor.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville led the first French naval expedition to circumnavigate the world, from 1766 to 1769.
		Bougainville was also a distinguished scientist, and fought in the American War of Independence.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bougainville was born in Paris (Paris: The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce), France (France: A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe), the son of a notary.
		Bougainville's voyage of circumnavigation was also notable for being the first to include a woman, Jeanne Baré (Jeanne Baré: jeanne baré is probably the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation....
		Bougainville obtained the rank of vice-admiral in 1791; and in 1792, having escaped almost miraculously from the massacres of Paris, he retired to his estate in Normandy (Normandy: A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie).
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	Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de
		Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, Comte de, soldier, sailor (b at Paris, France 12 Nov 1729; d there 20 Aug 1811).
		After studying law and mathematics, he published a Traité de calcul intégral (1754-56) and was elected to the Royal Society (London).
		Bougainville was involved in the campaigns of the SEVEN YEARS' WAR leading up to the Battle of the PLAINS OF ABRAHAM.
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		Bougainville is the largest of the Solomon Islands in the southwestern Pacific.
		Although Bougainville belongs to the Solomon islands group, it was politically divided from the southern islands by a British, German and United States trade-off known as the Anglo-German treaty on Samoa in 1898, in which Germany kept administration of Bougainville and the north east quarter of New Guinea.
		Bougainville was without an effective fighting force and both the PNG and Australian governments assumed that the trouble could be resolved relatively quickly.
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	Bougainville Louis Antoine de - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bougainville Louis Antoine de - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		The island was settled by Polynesians by the 14th century, and probably earlier.
		In 1768 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a French explorer,...
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		He was closely related to the Marchioness de Pompadour and when he expressed a wish to travel the world, this enabled him to be appointed as the aide de camp of Louis Joseph Montcalm and leave with him on board the Licorne to Quebec.
		During a battle in des Saintes in the West Indies, he was accused of cowardice for having retreated from the field too soon.
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville died in Paris in 1811.
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	Bougainville - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bougainville, island in eastern Papua New Guinea, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, largest of the Solomon Islands group.
		Bougainville, Louis Antoine de (1729-1811), French military officer and navigator, known for his important contributions to science and geography...
		Bougainville, Chan, Sir Julius, government response, role in history of Papua New Guinea
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	LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGA... - Online Information article about LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGA...
		LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
		Bougainville undertook the task at his own expense.
		He was created chef d'escadre, and on re-entering the army, was given the rank of marechal de camp.
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	Bougainville biography
		Bougainville went northwest through the South Pacific and by the end of March 1768 he discovered islands in the archipelago of Tuamoto, now French Polynesia.
		Bougainville then sailed west reaching what is now named Bougainville reef, just to the east of the Great Barrier reef.
		Bougainville continued on to New Britain but, because his men were by then suffering from scurvy and his ships needed refitting, he stopped at Buru in the Moluccas in September 1768.
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	Bougainville information - Search.com
		Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and is the largest of the Solomon Islands group.
		Bougainville, the adjacent island of Buka, and assorted outlying islands including the Carterets are sometimes known as North Solomons.
		The island was named after the French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville (whose name has also been lent to the creeping tropical flowering vines of the bougainvillea family).
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	Louis Antoine De Bougainville
		Subsequently he served as aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Montcalm, in Canada, whence he was sent for re-enforcements to France, in 1758, and there made a colonel and a knight of St. Louis.
		When Admiral Rodney defeated De Grasse, 12 April 1778, Bougainville commanded the "Auguste" and, though she suffered severely, he succeeded in maintaining her position in line, and by judicious manceuvring rescued eight sail of his own division, which he conducted safely to St. Eustace.
		In 1796 he was elected a member of the geographical section of the institute, and afterward of the bureau des longitudes.
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	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville biography
		Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was born on 12 November 1729, the youngest of the three children of Pierre-Yves de Bougainville and Marie-Francoise d'Arboulin.
		Bougainville's mathematical ability continued to increase and in 1751 he became a pupil of Jean le Rond d'Alembert, the mathematician and one of the principal authors of the Encyclopedie.
		Bougainville speculated that it was Carteret in the Swallow.
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	Dunmore, John, editor and translator. The Pacific Journal of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1767-1768.
		The French circumnavigation of the globe in 1767-68 under the command of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a rather straightforward venture.
		Bougainville’s first concern was to officially cede the infant colony (one he founded) on the Falkland Islands (Malouines) to Spain, but because of many difficulties, it was a year before the Boudeuse and its sister ship, Étoile, entered the Pacific.
		Dunmore translated and superbly edited The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785-1786, for the Hakluyt Society in 1994, and the Bougainville volume is treated in a similar manner.
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	LOUIS ANTOINE DE BOUGAINVILLE FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville né à Paris en 1729 était un explorateur français.
		Premier aide de camps de Montcalm en 1756 aux côté de qui il combattit aux plaines d'Abraham en 1759, il devint capitaine de frégate en 1763 et tenta en vain de coloniser les îles Malouines (1763-1765).
		Ce livre suscite une réaction de Denis Diderot, qui publie en 1772 son Supplément au voyage de Bougainville, dans lequel le philosophe attaque le colonialisme et l'esclavage.
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	AllRefer.com - Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville[lwE ANtwAn´ du bOOgaNvEl´] Pronunciation Key, 1729–1811, French navigator.
		Accompanied by naturalists and astronomers, he made a voyage around the world (1767–69), visiting Tahiti in the Society Islands, the Samoan group, and the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), and rediscovering the Solomon Islands, the largest of which (Bougainville, now a part of Papua New Guinea) is named for him.
		His name is also given to the strait between Bougainville and Choiseul Island, to a strait in Vanuatu, and to the bougainvillaea vine.
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		Louis Antoine de Bougainville (November 11, 1729–August 31, 1811) was a French navigator.
		De Bougainville was born in Paris, France, the son of a notary.
		In 1766 Boungainville received from Louis XV the mission to circumnavigate the globe.
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	Louis Antoine de Bougainville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Louis Antoine de Bougainville, the first French officer to circumnavigate the globe, charted a number of islands in the Pacific which he called the Isles de Navigatieurs, May 3 to May 5, 1768.
		As he sailed out of the group he saw Upolu in independent Samoa through a thick fog which prevented him from recording it and two other islands accurately.
		The stamp reproduces a simplified copy of Bougainville's chart of the islands of American Samoa.
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	Who was Bougainville? - What's in a Name? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		November 5, 1766, Louis Antoine de Bougainville sailed from Nantes aboard the frigate Boudeuse.
		Commerson suggested to Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu that the vine he found in Brazil be named for the expedition leader.
		Bougainville led a remarkable life, but he should not have.
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		He was among the officers who accompanied de Lévis to Saint Helen's Island off Montreal for the final holdout before the general capitulation of 1761.
		At Batavia they received news of Wallis and Carteret who had preceded Bougainville.
		It is also applied to the strait between Mallicollo and Espiritu Santo islands of the New Hebrides group.
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	bougainville - Ask.com Web Search
		Bougainville and the adjacent island of Buka are sometimes called the North Solomons and are a province of Papua New Guinea.
		Bougainville Island is the largest of hundreds of islands that comprise the Notrh Solomons chain of islands.
		Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea and is the largest island of the Solomon Islands group.
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	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
		The French Sailor, Soldier, Statesman and Mathematician, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, was one of the most interesting characters of the Eighteenth Century.
		The notion of the "Noble savage" had some of its roots in the reports given by members of Bougainville's expedition of their short time on the island of Tahiti.
		Bougainville et ses compagnons autour du monde: 1766-1769, joutnaux de navigation, etablis et commentes par Etienne Taillemite.
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	Louis-Antoine de Bougainville -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		U.S. publisher Louis Antoine Godey is known for introducing Godey's Lady's Book, the first periodical in the United States specifically for women.
		The French soldier, explorer, and colonial administrator Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac is a controversial figure.
		Explore Santiago De Cuba, the second largest city in Cuba, with a diverse population and culture.
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