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    France had already lost the use of Cape Town in 1806 after the battles of Blaauwberg and Batavia in 1811, with the British Invasion of Java. Thus, in 1813...
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    Jean-Baptiste Philibert Willaumez (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
    captured ship that Cape Town had been seized by the British in the Battle of Blaauwberg, in January 1806. With food supplies now unavailable and many of his men...
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