Le domaine de La Poncetière est une ancienne habitation sucrière de l'île de La Réunion, département d'outre-mer français dans le sud-ouest de l'océan Indien. Située au 44, chemin du Grand Pourpier, à Saint-Paul, elle est inscrite en totalité à l'inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques depuis le 9 janvier 2008.
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The Olympic Stade Paul-Julius-Bénard, or officially the Stade olympique Bénard-Paul-Julius, is a stadium of the island of Réunion, Department of Overseas French and outermost region of the European Union in the southwest of the Indian Ocean. Main stadium of the town of St. Paul, it has a capacity of 8,288 seats at the games of the Saint-Pauloise FC and 12,000 for concerts. The stadium underwent major renovations which lasted 1 year and a half. It reopened on 26 May 2012 during a charity match between the friends of Zinedine Zidane and a selection of the Meeting.
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The Rivière des Galets is a river on the Indian Ocean island of Réunion. It rises on the western slopes of Le Gros Morne, flowing northwest to reach the sea at Le Port after 36.2 km.
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The Canton of Le Port is a canton of Réunion, an overseas department and region of France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Le Port.
It consists of the following communes:
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The raid on Saint-Paul was an amphibious operation conducted by British forces against the port of Saint-Paul in the French colony of Isle Bonaparte during the Napoleonic Wars. It was launched on 20 September 1809 as both a precursor to a future full-scale invasion of Isle Bonaparte and in order to capture the French frigate Caroline and the East Indiamen she had seized in the action of 31 May 1809 which were sheltering in the harbour. The operation was a complete success, with British storming parties capturing the batteries overlooking the port, which allowed a naval squadron under Commodore Josias Rowley to enter the bay and capture the shipping in the harbour.
The French defenders of the town, despite initially resisting the attack, were unable to prevent the seizure of the port's defensive fortifications. The British force later withdrew under pressure from the main garrison of the island, burning warehouses containing over £500,000 worth of silk captured from British merchant ships. Ultimately the French were unable to effectively oppose the invasion, the island's governor General Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys retreating to Saint-Denis rather than engage the British and later committing suicide. The transportation of forces from the recently captured island of Rodriguez, the co-ordination of land and naval forces and the failure of the French defenders to co-ordinate an effective response were all features of the subsequent invasion and capture of Isle Bonaparte in July 1810.
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The Battle of Réunion or Liberation of Réunion was an amphibious landing and uprising which brought the island of Réunion onto the Allied side during the Second World War. The invasion was performed by the Free French Naval Forces destroyer Léopard on 28 November 1942, which toppled the administration loyal to the Vichy French regime and replaced it with a Free French administration.
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