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The Dutch established a colony on Mauritius in 1638. It never prospered and the few hundred souls there were evacuated in 1710 when the success of the Cape Colony made its supply function superfluous. A few years later the island was settled by Frenchmen from nearby Réunion. They successfully developed the Island’s present sugar plantation economy. Nearly 50,000 of the people were slaves whose origins lay in Madagascar or Mozambique.

In 1810 the British took Mauritius. They prohibited first the slave trade, then slavery, introducing Indian coolies who were low paid, unskilled laborers instead. Three hundred thousand of them came between 1834 and 1910. Mauritius attained independence in 1968.
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Timeline

1598 - The Dutch took possession of Mauritius and abandoned Mauritius in 1710
1715 - The French took control of the island, renaming it Isle de France
1810 - 1968 -Mauritius was captured by the British and became British Mauritius
1965 - Three years prior to the independence of Mauritius, the UK split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The UK forcibly expelled the archipelago's local population and leased its biggest island
1992 - Twenty-four years after independence, Mauritius was proclaimed a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations

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Encyclopedia Mauritiana, The Dutch Settlement
Mauritius Historical Description. index to people and places
Mauritius or Isle of France History and Inhabitants.Index places and people.
Mauritius AfricaGenweb Information

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+==History==
+The Dutch established a colony on Mauritius in 1638.  It never prospered and the few hundred souls there were evacuated in 1710 when the success of the Cape Colony made its supply function superfluous.  A few years later the island was settled by Frenchmen from nearby Réunion. They successfully developed the Island’s present sugar plantation economy. Nearly 50,000 of the people were slaves whose origins lay in Madagascar or Mozambique.
-The Dutch established a colony on Mauritius in 1638.  It never prospered and the few hundred souls there were evacuated in 1710 when the success of the Cape Colony made its supply function superfluous.  A few years later the island was settled by Frenchmen from nearby Réunion.  They successfully developed the Island’s present sugar plantation economy.  In 1750 the island’s population was 10,000.  By 1800 it had grown to 60,000.  Nearly 50,000 of the 60,000 were slaves whose origins lay in Madagascar or Mozambique.
-In 1810 the British took Mauritius.  They prohibited first the slave trade, then slavery, introducing Indian coolies (low paid, unskilled laborers) instead.  Three hundred thousand of them came between 1834 and 1910.  Mauritius attained independence in 1968.<ref name="profile">The Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Family History Record Profile: Western Indian Ocean,” Word document, private files of the FamilySearch Content Strategy Team, 1990, 2000.</ref>
-*[http://www.mauritiusencyclopedia.com/History/Dutch.htm Encyclopedia Mauritiana, The Dutch Settlement]
+In 1810 the British took Mauritius.  They prohibited first the slave trade, then slavery, introducing Indian coolies who were low paid, unskilled laborers instead.  Three hundred thousand of them came between 1834 and 1910.  Mauritius attained independence in 1968.
+<br>
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritius]
+==Timeline==
+- The Dutch took possession of Mauritius and abandoned Mauritius in 1710<br>
+- The French took control of the island, renaming it Isle de France<br>
+- 1968 -Mauritius was captured by the British  and became British Mauritius<br>
+- Three years prior to the independence of Mauritius, the UK split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritian territory to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. The UK forcibly expelled the archipelago's local population and leased its biggest island<br>
+- Twenty-four years after independence, Mauritius was proclaimed a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations<br>
+==Links==
+*[https://www.encyclopedia.com/places/africa/mauritania-political-geography/mauritania Encyclopedia Mauritiana, The Dutch Settlement]
 *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000001545203;view=1up;seq=16 Mauritius Historical Description]. index to people and places
 *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b266745;view=1up;seq=7 Mauritius or Isle of France History and Inhabitants.]Index places and people.
+*[http://www.africagenweb.org/index.php/eastern-africa/mauritius Mauritius AfricaGenweb Information]
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