Question: When did the French come to the region serving as the middle leg of the journey from England to the continent where the river serving as drainage for the southwest plain of the Congo can be found?

Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc was a French trader and adventurer in the Caribbean, who established the first permanent French colony, Saint - Pierre, on the island of Martinique in 1635. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> Historically the particular routes were also shaped by the powerful influence of winds and currents during the age of sail. Returning from North America, it is easiest to follow the Gulf Stream in a northeasterly direction using the westerlies. For example, from the main trading nations of Western Europe it was much easier to sail westwards after first going south of 30 N latitude and reaching the so - called ``trade winds ''; thus arriving in the Caribbean rather than going straight west to the North American mainland. A similar triangle to this, called the volta do mar was already being used by the Portuguese, before Christopher Columbus' voyage, to sail to the Canary Islands and the Azores. Columbus simply expanded the triangle outwards, and his route became the main way for Europeans to reach, and return from, the Americas. <SEP> the story, illustrated by the author, is set in england during the middle ages, as the black death (bubonic plague) is sweeping across the country. young robin is sent away to become a knight like his father, but his dreams are endangered when he loses the use of his legs. a doctor reassures robin that the weakness in his legs is not caused by the plague and the doctor is supposed to come and help him but does not. his parents are away, serving the king and queen during war, and the servants abandon the house, fearing the plague. robin is saved by brother luke, a friar, who finds him and takes him to a monastery and cares for him. <SEP> The area includes parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola (Cabinda Province), the Republic of the Congo and Gabon. Mayombe (or Mayumbe) is a geographic area on the western coast of Africa occupied by low mountains extending from the mouth of the Congo River in the south to the Kouilou-Niari River to the north. <SEP> Forests are under increasing exploitation pressure. The southwest of the country is a coastal plain for which the primary drainage is the Kouilou-Niari River; the interior of the country consists of a central plateau between two basins to the south and north. <SEP> mil plain is a plain in azerbaijan. it is located on the bank of the aras river and extends to iran. mil-plain is located in the southwest part of the kur-araz lowland, where the kura and araz rivers meet. the area is between the right bank of the kura river and the left bank of the araz river. the north-eastern part of the plain is lower than the ocean level. in the south-west, these areas are covered by sand, gravel. more than 40 percent of the altitude in the plain is 0-100 meters, 25 percent - 100-200 meters above sea level, and 35 percent - absolute altitude is less than 0 meters. the absolute altitude decreases about 8 m to north (to the kura river) and varies from 200 to 250 to the west (harami plain). the plain includes mainly the areas of imishli and beylagan districts. seismic activity is high as the plain is in the convergent border the alpine-himalayan orogenic belt.