The online exhibits here will focus on where, how, and why settler colonies developed and will allow users to explore the regions' geography, how the landscape and demographics changed over time due to the influx of settlers, and how colonial administrators, settlers, and Indigenous communities experienced these changes.
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"Le coup d'eventail" (The flyswatter attack)
In 1798, Napoleon I invaded Egypt, and to feed his troops, bought grain from merchants in Algeria, but he never paid them back. In 1814, the next…