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    History of Seychelles

    The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries. On 15 March 1503, the scrivener Thomé Lopes noted the sighting of an elevated island, doubtless one of the granitic islands and almost certainly Silhouette Island. The first recorded landing was by the men of the English East India Company ship Ascension, which arrived in Seychelles in January 1609. The islands were claimed by France in 1756. Seychelles remained uninhabited until the first settlers arrived on board the ship Thélemaque, which arrived on 27 August 1770. Captain Leblanc Lecore landed the first colonists, comprising 15 white men, eight Africans and five Indians. The Seychellois Creole language developed as a means of communication between the different races. The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The Seychelles History Museum in Victoria, Seychelles, the former Supreme Court building.. The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries. On 15 March 1503, the scrivener Thomé Lopes noted the sighting of an elevated island, doubtless one ...
  3. britannica.com

    history of Seychelles, a survey of the important events and people in the history of Seychelles.The country, in the western Indian Ocean, comprises about 115 islands, and has lush tropical vegetation, beautiful beaches, and a wide variety of marine life. Situated between latitudes 4° and 11° S and longitudes 46° and 56° E, the major islands of Seychelles are located about 1,000 miles ...
  4. seyvillas.com

    The Seychelles has a very short human history: the first humans settled on the islands only at the end of the 18th century; before then the entire archipelago was completely uninhabited.Having first become a French colony, then a British one, the Seychelles saw the arrival, along with the settlers, of numerous slaves from various parts of Africa.
  5. insideseychelles.com

    Seychelles has a very short human history… The history of Seychelles dates back to the fourth of the Portuguese India Armadas led by Vasco da Gama, though Seychelles was likely already known to Arab navigators and other sailors for many centuries. On 15 March 1503, the scrivener Thomé Lopes noted the sighting of an elevated island, doubtless ...
  6. oxfordre.com

    The history of the Seychelles since the islands' colonization in 1770 has been shaped by their physical geography, location in the western Indian Ocean, and peripheral status in the French and British colonial empires. The archipelago's social, economic, and political history reflects its role in facilitating the slave trade that funneled ...
  7. seychellen.com

    Seychelles history mentions that in honour of Bertrand François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, Lazare Picault then gave the island a new name and renamed it Mahé. On 15th June 1744, Picault set off for further travels and visited the nearby island of La Digue, which he first called Ìle Rouge because of its reddish granite rocks. ...

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