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The island fell once again into international obscurity until [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] ships of the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] fighting a [[Corumm]]ese fleet during the [[Alshar Quasi-Wars]], in [[1701]], where chased all around the northern coast of [[Stenza]]. They took refuge on the island after the [[Corumm]]ese fleet gave up the chase. They navigated to the [[Carto-Pelaxian Commonwealth]] and resupplied, took on some settlers and laborers and returned 4 months later to establish a fort and dockyard. This complex was called ''Le Sud Moll'', the south dock, by the enterprising crew. | The island fell once again into international obscurity until [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] ships of the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] fighting a [[Corumm]]ese fleet during the [[Alshar Quasi-Wars]], in [[1701]], where chased all around the northern coast of [[Stenza]]. They took refuge on the island after the [[Corumm]]ese fleet gave up the chase. They navigated to the [[Carto-Pelaxian Commonwealth]] and resupplied, took on some settlers and laborers and returned 4 months later to establish a fort and dockyard. This complex was called ''Le Sud Moll'', the south dock, by the enterprising crew. | ||
====Colonial Period==== | ====Colonial Period==== | ||
From [[1702]]-[[1876]] the Colonie Sud Moll was administered by the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]]. | From [[1702]]-[[1876]] the Colonie Sud Moll was administered by the [[Burgoignesc South Levantine Trading Company|Bourgondii Royal Trading Company]] (BRTC). They set up Fort St. Matius which served as a trading post and garrison post for soldiers and a small naval contingent. | ||
They were unmolested by the natives for the first few years as they remained focused on the one fort and some modest agricultural fields to supplement their fishing. In [[1709]], three villages banded together and assaulted the crop fields, burning them down. In retaliation the garrison started a pacification campaign. The Coastal Clearances of 1710 were a violent period of pillaging and raiding the native Austal Vallois fishing villages on the coast and forcing them to submit to a tribute system or vacate the coast. 7 villages were "pacified", 3 submitting to tributary status, two moving inland, and two particularly resistant volaahes being burned and its inhabitants hunted down. | |||
===Contemporary period=== | ===Contemporary period=== | ||