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the early career of Mauritian-Norwegian footballer Caleb Francis was halted due to racist abuse?
there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games, the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003?
after accusing Mauritian judges of involvement in slavery, Sir John Jeremie was honoured in 1836 by the Anti-Slavery Society?
Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
Diogo Fernandes Pereira discovered the Mascarenes archipelago (Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues) in 1507?
Commodore Josias Rowley's campaign to capture the Indian Ocean islands of Reunion and Mauritius in 1810 was the source material for the exploits of Jack Aubrey in Patrick O'Brian's novel The Mauritius Command?

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