Siege of Guadeloupe, an unsuccessful 1703 British siege during the War of the Spanish Succession
François Nicolas Vincent Campenon (Saint-François, Guadeloupe, 29 March 1772 - Villecresnes, 29 November 1843) was a French poet and translator from Latin and English.
On 1 October 1799, Jeannet was sent to Guadeloupe, and promoted to acting brigadier general on 14 juillet 1800.
Michaël Joseph Niçoise (born 19 September 1984 in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis) – commonly known as Dawood Nicoise – is a French football player from Guadeloupe, who is currently playing for Putrajaya SPA F.C. in the Malaysia Premier League.
After financial problems Petrus had less means and studio time to succeed with PJB and his other projects like Change and B. B. & Q. band and after the murder of him in Guadeloupe in 1986 PJB vanished.
The French frigate Topaze had been forced to take shelter under a gun battery off Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe, but had been spotted by Pechell's blockade force.
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(1912) with Antoine Henri Grouvelle Supplément à la Liste des Coléoptères de la Guadeloupe Ann. Soc. Entom. France vol.
He collected botanical specimens mainly on Guadeloupe and its dependencies and Martinique, but made also collecting trips to Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, and Saint Lucia.
On 14 May at Martinique French Admiral de La Barre, Martinique's governor Vice Admiral de Clodoré and Guadeloupe's governor Rear Admiral Du Lion, plus the fireships were met by Crijnssen’s Dutch squadron who had reconquered Berbice and St Eustatius from the English.
The specific name guadalupensis refers to the West Indian island of Guadeloupe.
As early as 1962 the Sicot Brothers from Haiti would frequently tour Dominica, the French Islands of Martinique & Guadeloupe and others to spread the seed of cadence, a Haitian Méringue.
Cherimoya and other members of the Annonaceae family also contain small amounts of neurotoxic acetogenins, such as annonacin, which appear to be linked to atypical Parkinsonism in Guadeloupe.
In his book The Crime of Napoleon (2005), Ribbe controversially accused Napoleon of having used sulphur dioxide gas for the mass execution of more than 100,000 rebellious black slaves when trying to put down slave rebellions in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) and Guadeloupe.
As early as the 1970s, he was involved in bands on the island playing French Creole music that originated in the archipelago formed from Guadeloupe to Martinique.
Robert Charlebois (Québécois singer) had his house towards Grand-Anse beach, the largest beach of Guadeloupe.
Discovered by Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in 1493, pineapples became a rare delicacy in Europe, and were symbolic of power, wealth, and hospitality.
Élie Domota (born in 1963) is a trade union leader from Guadeloupe, spokesman of Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon or LKP (« Movement against exploitation » in creole) and general secretary of the UGTG, the main trade union in Guadeloupe.
She was awarded the Prix Romy Schneider Prize in 1985.
In 2011 she appeared in the joint French/British production Death in Paradise, a crime drama/comedy filmed in Guadeloupe for BBC One, but she is best known in France for her roles A Heart in Winter (1992), My Best Friend (2006) and Private Lessons (1986).
In 1969, Gordon Henderson (the creole father of soul) decided that the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe had everything he needed to begin a career in Creole music.
Under the leadership of Julien Fédon, owner of a plantation in the mountainous interior of the island, and encouraged by French Revolutionary leaders on Guadeloupe, the rebels seized control of most of the island (St. George's, the capital, was never taken), but were eventually crushed by a military expedition led by General Ralph Abercromby.
From 1780 to 1790, his early military career as an engineer was passed at La Fère and Brest before he was posted overseas to Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Islands of Tobago.
In his book, Le Crime de Napoléon, French historian Claude Ribbe has claimed that in the early 19th century, Napoleon used poison gas to put down slave rebellions in Haiti and Guadeloupe.
The fossil record shows that it once ranged across Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie-Galante, and Îles des Saintes, but in most recent times it was restricted to Grand Ilet, just offshore of Petit-Bourg.
After France had been defeated and Napoleon was exiled to Elba, the Treaty of Paris of 1814 settled the terms of the peace, in which Guadeloupe, having previously been a French possession, was returned to France.
The term island raccoons is used as a generic term for five subspecies or species of raccoon (Procyon) endemic on small Central American and Caribbean islands, such as Cozumel and Guadeloupe.
In 1976 he received his Licencié en lettres and became head of a cultural center in the Bordeaux region, then another in Seine-et-Marne, and a third in 1980, in Guadeloupe.
Jean-Luc Lambourde (born 10 April 1980) is a French football player who currently plays for Amical Club on the island of Guadeloupe in the Guadeloupe Division d'Honneur.
He also scored the first goal in Guadeloupe's 2–1 quarterfinal win over Honduras on 17 June 2007 at Reliant Stadium in Houston.
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In 2006, Angloma came out of retirement to play for his native région, Guadeloupe, and help them qualify for the 2007 Caribbean Nations Cup.
Lucette Michaux-Chevry, the head of the Regional council of the French overseas department of Guadeloupe between 1992 and 2004
Lucius-Duquesnes Gustave (born September 24, 1893 in Sainte-Anne, Guadeloupe, and died July 15, 1972 in Paris) was a politician from Guadeloupe who represented and served Togo in the French Senate from 1946-1952 .
Under the July Monarchy he was made assistant librarian at the Bibliothèque Mazarine; Napoleon III appointed him counsellor at the court of appeals of La Guadeloupe, whence he was transferred in the same capacity to the court of Aix, a position which he occupied until his death.
Milan made his Gold Cup debut on 11 June in a 1–0 victory over Guadeloupe at Raymond James Stadium.
Also named "Patuá" in the Paria Peninsula of Venezuela, and spoken since the 18th century by self colonization of French people (from Corsica) and Caribbean people such as JAMAICA, which is the main country that speaks this language (from Martinique, Saint Thomas, Trinidad, Guadeloupe, Haiti) who moved for cacao production.
After the return of Guadeloupe to France in 1763, the city of Pointe-à-Pitre was officially founded under governor Gabriel de Clieu in 1764 by a royal edict, and the swamps where downtown Pointe-à-Pitre stands today were drained in the following years, thus allowing the urban development of the city.
In the months since Troude's failure, the French had only sent small supply ships to Guadeloupe, while carefully preparing a major expedition at Nantes.
At Basse-Terre on Guadeloupe yellow fever had also broken out and on 3 September Richepanse died of it, to be replaced by Boudet.
He is currently directing “At Work”, an itinerant and digital project with lettera27 Foundation, in partnership with Moleskine, as well as the Pan African Master Classes in Photography, project that he conceived with the Goethe Institut, and setting up the collection of contemporary art for the future Memorial Acte Museum in Guadeloupe.
The French overseas departments (départements d'outre mer or DOMs), Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion have separate country codes from metropolitan France, although they are treated as part of the French numbering plan, with direct dialing for calls between the DOMs (including collectivités territoriales) and metropolitan France.
He is the author of a number of publications on the history of Black Africa and the African diaspora, as well as numerous economic studies of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on the French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique).