Question: When did the people who captured Malakoff come to the region in which Philipsburg can be found?

The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country of Sint Maarten. In 2015, the airport handled 1,829,543 passengers and around 60,000 aircraft movements. The airport serves as a hub for Windward Islands Airways and is the major gateway for the smaller Leeward Islands, including Anguilla, Saba, St. Barthélemy and St. Eustatius. Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. It is named after Queen Juliana, who landed here while still only heir presumptive in 1944, the year after the airport opened. The airport has very low-altitude flyover landing approaches, owing to one end of its runway being extremely close to the shore and Maho Beach. There is also an airport on the French side of the island, in the French Collectivity of Saint Martin, called Aéroport de Grand Case or L'Espérance Airport. <SEP> 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. In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). 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> in 1534, francis i of france sent jacques cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of newfoundland and the st. lawrence river. he founded new france by planting a cross on the shore of the gaspé peninsula. the french subsequently tried to establish several colonies throughout north america that failed, due to weather, disease, or conflict with other european powers. cartier attempted to create the first permanent european settlement in north america at cap - rouge (quebec city) in 1541 with 400 settlers but the settlement was abandoned the next year after bad weather and attacks from native americans in the area. a small group of french troops were left on parris island, south carolina in 1562 to build charlesfort, but left after a year when they were not resupplied by france. fort caroline established in present - day jacksonville, florida, in 1564, lasted only a year before being destroyed by the spanish from st. augustine. an attempt to settle convicts on sable island off nova scotia in 1598 failed after a short time. in 1599, a sixteen - person trading post was established in tadoussac (in present - day quebec), of which only five men survived the first winter. in 1604 pierre du gua de monts and samuel de champlain founded a short - lived french colony, the first in acadia, on saint croix island, presently part of the state of maine, which was much plagued by illness, perhaps scurvy. the following year the settlement was moved to port royal, located in present - day nova scotia. <SEP> On 7 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both St. Barthélemy and (separately) to the neighbouring Saint Martin. The new status took effect on 15 July 2007, when the first territorial council was elected, according to the law. The island has a president (elected every five years), a unicameral Territorial Council of nineteen members who are elected by popular vote and serve for five-year terms, and an executive council of seven members. Elections to these councils were first held on 1 July 2007 with the last election in March 2012. <SEP> in 1956, an act of congress officially renamed bedloe's island as liberty island, a change advocated by bartholdi generations earlier. the act also mentioned the efforts to found an american museum of immigration on the island, which backers took as federal approval of the project, though the government was slow to grant funds for it. nearby ellis island was made part of the statue of liberty national monument by proclamation of president lyndon johnson in 1965. in 1972, the immigration museum, in the statue's base, was finally opened in a ceremony led by president richard nixon. the museum's backers never provided it with an endowment to secure its future and it closed in 1991 after the opening of an immigration museum on ellis island. <SEP> For months each side had been building forward rifle pits and defensive positions, which resulted in many skirmishes. On 5 September, another French bombardment (the sixth) was followed by an assault by the French Army on 8 September resulting in the capture of the Malakoff by the French, and following their failure to retake it, the collapse of the Russian defences. Artillery fire aiming to gain superiority over the enemy guns. :450–462 September saw the final assault. Meanwhile, the British captured the Great Redan, just south of the city of Sevastopol. The Russians retreated to the north, blowing up their magazines and the city fell on 9 September 1855 after a 337-day-long siege. :106