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Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet

Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet

French aristocrat and colonial administrator

Joseph d'Honon de Gallifet (died 1706) was a French aristocrat and colonial administrator. He served as the governor of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) from 1700 to 1703, and the Governor of Guadeloupe from 1703 to 1706. Gallifet dealt with the reality of buccaneers as soon as he arrived in Saint-Domingue.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Latimer, Jon (2009). Buccaneers of the Caribbean: How Piracy Forged an Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 276. ISBN 9780674034037. OCLC 261174550.


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