[French Explorers of the Eighteenth Century] - Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia

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[French Explorers of the Eighteenth Century] - Explorers of the Pacific: European and American Discoveries in Polynesia

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France had established a colony at the Falkland Islands (Malouines) in 1764. Spain, however, claimed that the islands belonged to the continent of South America, and France acknowledged Spain's right in 1776, when Louis de Bougainville was ordered to proceed to the Falklands to deliver them officially to the Spaniards. He was also ordered to pro...

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Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Henry Buck)

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