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French explorer Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and 25 of his men are killed by Māori in New Zealand.
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Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
French explorer and cartographer (1724–1772)
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne was a French privateer, East India captain, and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geographic discoveries in the south Indian Ocean and anthropological discoveries in Tasmania and New…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Māori people
Indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand. Māori originated with settlers from East Polynesia, who arrived in New Zealand in several waves of canoe voyages between roughly 1320 and 1350. Over several centuries in isolation, these settlers developed a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Island country in the Pacific Ocean
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island and the South Island —and over 600 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island country by area and lies east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and south…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)