The Acadians of Ile Saint-Jean lived under the threat of deportation for the remainder of the war.

Upon arriving at Chignecto, he sent Boishebert to Ile Saint-Jean on a reconnaissance to assess the size of the New England force.

From 1749 – 55, there was massive Acadian migration out of British-occupied mainland Nova Scotia and into French-occupied Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ) and present-day New Brunswick.

Thousands of Acadians were deported from Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) and Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ).

The Ile Saint-Jean Campaign resulted in the largest percentage of deaths of the deported Acadians.

* Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle returns Ile Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) and Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) to French.

In 1758, hundreds of Ile Royale Acadians fled to one of Boishebert's refugee camps south of Baie des Chaleurs.

It was called Grand Ile by the French, but was later named after British General James Wolfe by British settlers.

* William S. Knudsen ( Grosse Ile ), automotive industry executive and U. S. Army General

In 1810, he ordered the re-furbishing of the Fort de la Rade on Ile d ' Aix, as well as the construction of Fort Enet.

* October 2 – British forces capture the Ile d ' Yeu off the coast of Brittany.

# Île à Vache ( Island of Cows ) is a small and lush island located off southwestern de l ' Ile d ' Haiti with a total area is 52 km².

Grosse Ile is the largest island in Wayne County and is connected to the mainland by the Wayne County Bridge and the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge.

The township is situated on several islands in the Detroit River, but the largest island is also referred to as simply Grosse Ile.

Grosse Ile is the largest island on the Detroit River.

The township of Grosse Ile is actually composed of twelve islands, although the community is most often identified with the main island ( which residents simply refer to as " The Island ").

The bridge on the north end of the island is called the Grosse Ile Toll Bridge ( off-white color ).

Grosse Ile historians consider the beginning of ownership and governance of the community by residents of European heritage to have begun on July 6, 1776, when the Potawatomi Indians deeded the island to prominent Detroit merchants, brothers William and Alexander Macomb.

In any case, the Macomb brothers are considered to be the founders, and first legal owners, of Grosse Ile, because the Potawatomis, and later the United States government, respected the Macombs ' perceived rights to take possession of the island.

The flags of three nations — France, England, and the United States — have flown over Grosse Ile since the first Europeans, French explorers, visited the island during the late 17th century.

The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Grosse Ile maintains that Father Hennepin came ashore and said mass at a location on the east shore of the island near the present site of St. Anne's Chapel.

While there apparently is not written proof of this specific event, Father Hennepin did write in his journals about the fruit orchards and wild animals on Grosse Ile, so historians assume that, at the very least, he explored the island first-hand.

Although Grosse Ile maintained its own name and identity as a community beginning in the 18th century, it did not obtain status as an independent unit of government until October 27, 1914, when the Wayne County Board of Supervisors agreed to separate the island from Monguagon Township.

The northernmost of the channel range lights was the Grosse Ile Light, which is presently the only lighthouse remaining on the island.

Grosse Ile resident John Karmazin, Sr., who lived on the island from 1926 until his death in 1977, invented the automotive radiator pressure cap, obtained more than fifty automotive-related patents, and founded the Karmazin Products Corporation which produced automotive and heavy construction equipment components in the city of Wyandotte from 1946 until 2000.

Grosse Ile was directly connected to the mainland of Michigan during 1873 when the Canada Southern Bridge Company, a subsidiary of the Canada Southern Railroad Company, established a railroad to the island which carried both passengers and freight.

The company laid tracks across Grosse Ile and built bridges over the Detroit River that enabled trains to be transferred to a ferryboat on Stony Island ( one of the islands near the east shoreline of Grosse Ile's " main island ").

After Canada Southern ended its operations, the Michigan Central Railroad operated a train that enabled Grosse Ile residents and visitors to travel between the island and Trenton.

The rail tracks across the island were replaced by a roadway that is now known as Grosse Ile Parkway.

Lake freighters and ocean going ships traveling to destinations around the Great Lakes regularly pass near the east side of the island where the main channel of the Detroit River separates Grosse Ile from Canada.

While the shoreline areas of Grosse Ile feature the majority of historically significant places and structures, approximately a dozen 1920s era homes in the Jewell Colony subdivision, located in the middle of the island, are listed on the Michigan Register of Historic Places.

In 1993, a group of community-minded citizens established a 501 ( c )( 3 ) non-profit organization named the Grosse Ile Land & Nature Conservancy to aid in the protection and stewardship of the diverse natural resources on the island.

This island was once called " Ile au Chamailles " and was later named " Baxters Island " and " Stacys Island.

We can see the burial place of Tristan in Douarnenez ( in the island named Ile Tristan ) and the burial place of the king Marc on the Menez-Hom, a small hill in the parrish of Dineault.

Most of the islands in the Detroit River are in the southern portion of the waterway near Grosse Ile and close to where the river empties into Lake Erie.

In Michigan, there are two bridges connecting the mainland to Grosse Ile and the MacArthur Bridge, popularly known as the " Belle Isle Bridge ," that connects the City of Detroit to Belle Isle Park.

The largest lake of Haiti, and the second largest lake of Ile d ' Haiti and the West Indies, is Lake Azuei.

Rousseau was initially buried at Ermenonville on the Ile des Peupliers, which became a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers.

After the fall of Louisbourg, the resident French population of Ile Royal were deported to France.

The first West African French settlement, Saint Louis, was founded in the mid-seventeenth century in Senegal, while at about the same time the Dutch ceded to the French a settlement at Ile de Gorée off Dakar.

The Audiorama, the Swiss National Audiovisual Museum, Crêtes Castle, Châtelard Castle, the Train Station, the Hôtel Montreux-Palace, the Ile and Villa Salagnon, the Marché couvert, the Palace-Hôtel, the Territet which was formerly the Grand-Hôtel / the Hôtel des Alpes, and the Villa Karma are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Soubise then returned to Ré with 15 ships and soon occupied the Ile d ' Oléron as well, thus giving him command of the Atlantic coast from Nantes to Bordeaux.

Sea salt harvest in Ile de Ré.

The department includes the islands of Île de Ré, Île d ' Aix, and Ile d ' Oléron.

In Paris on the Ile aux Cygnes, there is a replica of Statue of Liberty which faces west supposedly in alignment with the Statue of Liberty in New York.

Image: Ile st honorat. jpg | St Honorat Island

The Île Sans-Pain and Île Bouchaud are now virtually joined due to progressive silting and are referred to as the Ile Nouvelle.

Participants can start any time, have any design, any amount of crew, and the only two rules are: 1 ) start and finish at the Ile d ’ Ouessant, and 2 ) complete the journey under 80 days.

There was episodes of extreme violence like the killing of Béziers, faced the forces assembled by vassal lords of the Capetian mainly from Ile de France and the north of France, led by Simon de Montfort, against the nobility of Toulouse led by Count Raymond VI of Toulouse and the family Trencavel that, as allies and vassals of the king of Aragon Peter II the Catholic, invoked direct involvement in the conflict at the Aragonese monarch, who was defeated and killed in the course of Battle of Muret in 1213.

He is said to be the first of the Orisha to descend to the realm of Ile Aiye or the earth to find suitable habitation for future human life.

It was expected that a siege of perhaps several weeks would be required, but the army took the city in less than a day, 26 July 1346, storming and sacking it, killing 3, 000 of its citizens, and burning much of the merchants ' quarter on the Ile Ste-Jean.

* link = Grosse Ile Municipal Airport is located about two miles ( 3. 2 km ) south of Grosse Ile Township's downtown area.