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Decaen is a
French surname.
People of that name include:
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen (1769–1832),
French general Claude Théodore
Decaen (1811–1870)...
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Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen (13
April 1769 – 9
September 1832) was a
French Army
officer and
colonial administrator who
served as the
governor of Isle...
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Decaen piastre was a coin that
Governor Decaen had
minted at Île of
France in 1810. He
entrusted the
coining to the
artist "sieur Aveline", who designed...
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General Claude Théodore
Decaen (30
September 1811 in
Utrecht – 17
August 1870 in Metz) was a
French military commander. He was at
military school in 1827...
- in
Mauritius instead of
Pondicherry in India).
Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen was a
successful general in the
French Revolutionary Wars and, in some ways...
- name
again in the 19th century: in 1806,
under the
First Empire,
General Decaen named it Isle
Bonaparte (after Napoleon),
though in 1810 it
became Isle...
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capture of the island's
capital Port
Napoleon and the
surrender of
Charles Decaen, the
French governor. The
surrender eliminated the last
French territory...
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Division Antoine Richepanse (10,700) and
Charles Decaen (10,100). The
divisions of d'Hautpoul, Richepanse,
Decaen, and
Grouchy formed Moreau's
Reserve Corps...
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traders and
merchants developed and thrived.
Governor Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen, su****ious of the
English ship HMS ****berland
which called in
there to...
- The
Feste Schwerin,
renamed fort
Decaen by the
French in 1919, is a
military installation near Metz. It is part of the
first fortified belt of
forts of...
