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Post Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:43 pm    Post subject: Il de France Reply with quote
Which famous Royal Navy officer spent his holidays in Il de France, courtesy of the French government?
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Post Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Matthew Flinders (of Australia fame) was returning to England aboard the Cumberland, when the poor condition of the schooner forced it to put in at Mauritius for repairs on 17 December 1807.
Unbeknownst to Flinders, England was now at war with France again, and the French governor, General De Caen, had Flinders detained as a prisoner of war. His imprisonment lasted for almost seven years.
Flinders finally returned to England in October 1810.
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