Belle-Isle

Belle-Isle, a fortified island on the W. coast of France, near which Sir Edward Hawke gained a brilliant naval victory over the French, under M. de Conflans, in 1759.

Population (circa 1900) given as 60,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Belle France * Belleisle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Count of
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Bell, Sir Charles
Bell, Thomas
Bell Rock
Bell-the-Cat
Bella, Stephano della
Bell`amy, Jacob
Bellange
Bellar`mine, Robert
Bellay, Joachim du
Belle France
Belle-Isle
Belleisle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Count of
Bellenden, John
Bellenden, William
Beller`ophon
Bellerophon, Letters of
Belles-lettres
Belleville
Belliard, Comte de
Belli`ni
Bellini, Gentile

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Foucquet, Charles Louis Augustus
Foucquet, Nicolas
St. Simon, Louis De Rouvroi, Duke Of