He was present at the capture of Mauritius and Java, and at the battles of Baltimore and New Orleans.

Population and housing censuses for Mauritius was collected in 1972, 1983, and 2000 ; although respondents were asked to identify their race / ethnic origin in the 1972 census, this question was dropped from the following censuses because " the government felt that it was a divisive question ".

The Dodo ( Raphus cucullatus ) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.

Diego Garcia became a colony of the United Kingdom after the Napoleonic wars as part of the Treaty of Paris ( 1814 ), and from 1814 – 1965 it was administered from Mauritius.

The BIOT administration was moved to Seychelles following the independence of Mauritius in 1968 until the independence of Seychelles in 1976, and to a desk in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London since.

The ship had a difficult voyage — an outbreak of cholera on board when the ship was in Mauritius had the locals demanding its departure and they asked their governor to open fire and destroy the vessel if it did not respond.

The cataclysmic explosion was heard in Perth in Western Australia, about to the south, as well as the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, about to the west.

It has been frequently hypothesized that Mauritius was first discovered by the Arabs, who named the island Dina Arobi.

Mauritius was visited by the Portuguese between 1507 and 1513.

Mauritius was encountered during the same expedition and received the name of " Cirne " and Rodrigues that of " Diogo Fernandes ".

They landed and decided to name the island " Prins Maurits van Nassaueiland ", after Prince Maurits ( Latin version: Mauritius ) of the House of Nassau, the stadtholder of Holland, but also after the main vessel of the fleet which was called " Mauritius ".

The island was not permanently inhabited for the forty years after its ' discovery ' by the Dutch, but in 1638 Cornelius Gooyer established the first permanent Dutch settlement in Mauritius with a garrison of twenty-five.

Van der Meersh left Mauritius in September 1648 and was replaced by Reinier Por.

By the Treaty of Paris in 1814, the " Isle de France " which was renamed Mauritius was ceded to Great Britain, together with Rodrigues and the Seychelles.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Following this, the Mauritius Labour Party was founded in 1936 by Maurice Cure to safeguard the interest of the labourers.

When slavery was abolished on 1 February 1835, an attempt was made to secure a cheap source of adaptable labour for intensive sugar plantations in Mauritius.

Indentured labour began with Chinese, Malay, African and Malagasy labourers, but ultimately, it was India which supplied the much needed laborers to Mauritius.

In December 1991, the Constitution was amended to make Mauritius a republic within the Commonwealth.

In 1848, during the Chartist movements, Shaw Kennedy as he was then known ( see Family below ) was called upon to command at Liverpool, and soon afterwards was offered successively a command in Ireland and the governorship of Mauritius.

In 1993 Mauritius and Seychelles had two of the five embassies in Moroni, and Mauritius and Madagascar were connected to the republic by regularly scheduled commercial flights.

The Statistics Act of 2000 directed that all official censuses be conducted by the Central Statistics Office of Mauritius, as well as serve as the central depository for this information.

Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2, 000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island.

All the inhabitants of Diego Garcia were involuntarily relocated to other islands in the Chagos Archipelago or to Mauritius or Seychelles by 1971 to satisfy the requirements of a UK / US Exchange of Notes signed in 1966 to depopulate the island when the US constructed a base upon it.

Diego Garcia and the Chagos Archipelago were administered by the colonial government on the island of Mauritius until 1965, when the United Kingdom purchased them from the self-governing government of Mauritius for £ 3 million, and declared them to be a separate British Overseas Territory.

The known history of Mauritius begins with its discovery by Europeans and its appearance on maps in the early 16th century.

The first historical evidence of the existence of an island now known as Mauritius is on a map produced by the Italian cartographer Alberto Cantino in 1502.

' " The three islands ( Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues ) were encountered some years earlier by chance during an exploratory expedition of the coast of the Bay of Bengal led by Tristão da Cunha.

Politics of Mauritius takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, in which the President is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government who is assisted by a council of Ministers.

Another important structure of the government of Mauritius is the executive branch. The prime minister is appointed by the president and is responsible to the National Assembly.

In 1893, Mauritius was linked to Zanzibar via a sub-marine telegraphic cable followed by Rodrigues in 1901.

The monopoly is retained by Mauritius Telecom ( MT ) which provides dial-up & ADSL services over existing telephone lines.

They are operated by a number of major companies ( National Transport Corporation, Mauritius Bus Transport, Rose Hill Transport, Triolet Bus Service, United Bus Service, Luna Transport ) and various individual operators which are organized in regional Bus Owners Co-operative Societies ( BOCS ).

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

Dutch map of a coast of Mauritius

Hudson named the river the Mauritius River and was covertly attempting to find the Northwest Passage for the Dutch East India Company.

In addition, Raeder and other senior officers submitted memos calling for Germany to annex Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Cocos Islands, Aden, Socotra, the Comoros, Madagascar, the Mauritius, Ceylon ( modern Sri Lanka ) and, if possible, the Dutch East Indies ( through Raeder and other admirals conceded the Dutch East Indies would probably have to go to Japan in the interests of Axis solidarity ).

Blommaert was investigated in Amsterdam by the board of the East-India Company on January 30, 1616 about a vessel, named Mauritius de Nassau, sailed from a Dutch port, under the command of Jan Remmetszoon, of Purmerend.

Mauritius ebony, Diospyros tesselaria, was largely exploited by the Dutch in the 17th century.

He ordered occupation of the Portuguese factories in India and China, of the Dutch colony of Java, and of the French stations on Mauritius and Réunion.

Mauritius ebony, Diospyros tesselaria, was largely exploited by the Dutch in the 17th century.

Likewise, two small potted oil palms brought back by the VOC from Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, produced seeds after six years, and these were propagated throughout all of Southeast Asia, becoming a major source of revenue in the Dutch East Indies and now in Indonesia.

Up to that point, the Dutch had followed a route copied from the Portuguese via the coast of Africa, Mauritius and Ceylon.

After the Dutch abandoned Mauritius, the island became a French colony in September 1715 when Guillaume Dufresne d ' Arsel landed and took possession of it, naming the island Isle de France.

* Dutch Mauritius

Similarly, while the Dutch had a colony on Mauritius between 1638 and 1710, all the Dutch settlers evacuated the island to Réunion, leaving behind only a few runaway slaves who would have no discernible impact on Mauritian Creole.

Dutch Galleon showing both a forecastle ( left ) and aftcastle ( right ) off Mauritius

After the fall of French colonies in the West Indies in 1809 and 1810, and a successful campaign against French possessions in Mauritius in 1810 and 1811, attention turned to the Dutch East Indies.

Van Noort returned to Rotterdam via the Dutch East Indies and the Cape of Good Hope on 26 August 1601 with his last ship, the Mauritius, and 45 of originally 248 men.

Pieter Both ( 1568, Amersfoort – 6 March 1615, Mauritius ) was the first Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies.

The crew of the Dutch ship Gelderland used the names " griff-eendt " and " kermisgans " for the Dodo in 1598, in reference to fowl fattened for the Kermesse festival, which was held the day after they anchored on Mauritius.

After a brief stop for supplies in the Dutch East Indies, the ships made a longer stop at the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

The Dutch colonised Mauritius in 1638, several decades after three ships out of the Dutch Second Fleet sent to the Spice Islands were blown off course in a storm and landed in 1598.