Question: There is a group of islands among which is one that received COM status in 2007 alongside St Barts. When did the people who received support from Posen in the Franco-Prussian War come to those islands?

<P0-S0> the battle of the îles saint-marcouf was an engagement fought off the îles saint-marcouf near the cotentin peninsula on the normandy coast of france in may 1798 during the french revolutionary wars. <P0-S1> in 1795 a british garrison was placed on the islands, which operated as a resupply base for royal navy ships cruising off the coast of northern france. <P0-S2> seeking to eliminate the british presence on the islands and simultaneously test the equipment and tactics then being developed in france for a projected invasion of britain, the french launched a massed amphibious assault on the southern island using over 50 landing ships and thousands of troops on 7 may 1798. although significant royal navy forces were in the area, a combination of wind and tide prevented them from intervening and the island's 500-strong garrison was left to resist the attack alone. <SEP> <P1-S0> On 7 February 2007, the French Parliament passed a bill granting COM status to both St. Barthélemy and (separately) to the neighbouring Saint Martin. <P1-S1> The new status took effect on 15 July 2007, when the first territorial council was elected, according to the law. <P1-S2> 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. <P1-S3> Elections to these councils were first held on 1 July 2007 with the last election in March 2012. <SEP> <P2-S0> Princess Juliana International Airport is the main airport on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. <P2-S1> The airport is located on the Dutch side of the island, in the country of Sint Maarten. <P2-S2> In 2015, the airport handled 1,829,543 passengers and around 60,000 aircraft movements. <P2-S3> 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. <P2-S4> It is named after Queen Juliana, who landed here while still only heir presumptive in 1944, the year after the airport opened. <P2-S5> 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. <P2-S6> 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> <P3-S0> 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. <P3-S1> Belain sailed to the Caribbean in 1625, hoping to establish a French settlement on the island of St. Christopher (St. Kitts). <P3-S2> In 1626 he returned to France, where he won the support of Cardinal Richelieu to establish French colonies in the region. <P3-S3> Richelieu became a shareholder in the Compagnie de Saint - Christophe, created to accomplish this with d'Esnambuc at its head. <P3-S4> The company was not particularly successful and Richelieu had it reorganized as the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique. <P3-S5> In 1635 d'Esnambuc sailed to Martinique with one hundred French settlers to clear land for sugarcane plantations. <SEP> <P4-S0> by 1875, france was enjoying improved political stability and a recovering postwar economy. <P4-S1> growing interest in the upcoming centennial exposition in philadelphia led laboulaye to decide it was time to seek public support. <P4-S2> in september 1875, he announced the project and the formation of the franco - american union as its fundraising arm. <P4-S3> with the announcement, the statue was given a name, liberty enlightening the world. <P4-S4> the french would finance the statue; americans would be expected to pay for the pedestal. <P4-S5> the announcement provoked a generally favorable reaction in france, though many frenchmen resented the united states for not coming to their aid during the war with prussia. <P4-S6> french monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life. <P4-S7> laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the paris opera on april 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer charles gounod. <P4-S8> the piece was titled la liberté éclairant le monde, the french version of the statue's announced name. <SEP> <P5-S0> In the Prussian province of Posen, with a large Polish population, there was strong support for the French and angry demonstrations at news of Prussian-German victories—a clear manifestation of Polish nationalist feeling. <P5-S1> Calls were also made for Polish recruits to desert from the Prussian Army—though these went mainly unheeded. <P5-S2> An alarming report on the Posen situation, sent to Bismarck on 16 August 1870, led to the quartering of reserve troop contingents in the restive province. <P5-S3> The Franco-Prussian War thus turned out to be a significant event also in German–Polish relations, marking the beginning of a prolonged period of repressive measures by the authorities and efforts at Germanisation.