Auguste Jacques Nicolas Peureux de Mélay was

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for

Inde française French India, formally the (), was a French colony comprising five geographically separated enclaves on the Indian subcontinent that had initially been factories of the French East India Company. They were ''de facto'' incorporated into the ...

in the Second

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. In 1818, he captained a flotilla leaving

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for the upper Senegal river. He founded the fort of Bakel when the low water level forced them to stop 900 km upriver.

Titles held

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