Nosy Be (4)

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When King Radama I was completing his wars of conquest, the Boina Kings took refuge in Nosy Be.
First they sought protection from the Sultan of Zanzibar, who sent a warship in 1838 then, two years later, they requested help from Commander Passot who had docked his ship at Nosy Be.


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The Frenchman was only too happy to oblige and asked Admiral de Hell, the governor of Bourbon Island (now Réunion) to place Nosy Be under the protection of France.


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The island was formally annexed in 1841.


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