Questions tagged [caribbean]
The Caribbean is the region between North America and South America nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The Caribbean refers to both the group of islands that populate the region, as well as the Caribbean Sea from which the region derives its name.
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What uniform is in this picture? and when the unit would have been active?
I believe it belongs to the Caribbean Regiment (British Islands), but I heard most of the records no longer exist. I also think they fought during WWII, but I’m not sure the person in uniform would ...
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Where was the Mary Celeste wrecked?
Where exactly (coordinates) was the Mary Celeste shipwrecked (according to Wikipedia:
On January 3, 1885, Mary Celeste approached the port via the channel between Gonâve Island and the mainland, in ...
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What date did Henry Morgan capture his most famous flagship, the "Satisfaction"?
When Henry Morgan captured the French privateer ship, "Le Cerf Volant" he rechristened it the "Satisfaction" and used it as his flagship until it was lost near Panama in 1671 during a mission to ...
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How did Southern slaveholders in the United States relate to the Caribbean and Latin America?
The assertion in bold from Eric Hobsbawm's The Age of Capital piqued my interest. I am quoting most of the paragraph in case the context may help.
A large part of the south-west – California, ...
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What is the brown doll on Nicolás de Ovando's desk?
Nicolás de Ovando (1460-1511) was Spanish governor of the Indies (Hispaniola) before the age of the viceroyalties. In this anonymous portrait from Wikipedia, work materials are artfully arranged ...
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When did the Ciboney arrive on Cuba and displace the Guanahatabey?
Finding the answer to this question the conventional way is stumping my Google fu, as many sources describe Guanahatabey and Ciboney as synonymous. I am referring to the hunter-gatherer Guanahatabey, ...
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Were there ever instances of sailors pressed into British service in Europe ending up in the Caribbean?
I am working on a story in which I wanted to include a character who was pressed into the British Navy in 1790's England, and ended up on a ship headed to the Caribbean. This is a pretty integral ...
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Why are the Lesser Antilles so politically fragmented?
St. Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda are both English/English Creole speaking, and are right next to each other. Why are they not linked politically?
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Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03: Why is there a Russian flag on the cover of the prominent newspaper 'Le Petit Parisien'?
The Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03[a] was a naval blockade from December 1902 to February 1903 imposed against Venezuela by Britain, Germany and Italy over President Cipriano Castro's refusal to pay ...
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Time frame of Rita Indiana's video "Da Pa' lo' Do'" (Dominican Republic)
This question is about the history of the Dominican Republic. Look at the uniform shown in the beginning of Rita Indiana's video "Da Pa' lo' Do'," which means "There's enough for both," where "both" ...
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Why did not Spain manage to keep any colonial possessions in the new world?
It is well known that Spain had a huge presence in the colonisation and discovery of the new world. The Spanish empire is one of the largest in history and held vast territory in the Americas.
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Why do Afro-Caribbeans have English names whereas Indo-Caribbeans still have Indian(ish) names?
Why don't Afro-Caribbeans have African names or Indo-Caribbeans have English names? Did colonizers find it difficult to pronounce African names but not Indian names?
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Was a copy of Bobadilla's report on Christopher Columbus really found in a Spanish archive in 2006?
As claimed in The Guardian
A transcription of the document is apparently available on JSTOR here, the section "Pesquisa Del Comendador Francisco de Bobadilla".
I cannot read Spanish and otherwise ...
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Why did United Kingdom not keep the colonies after Napoleon's defeat?
During the Napoleonic Wars the British occupied some French, Dutch and Danish colonies mainly in the Caribbean like: Dutch Surinam, Danish West Indies, French Martinique.
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Why did the US not move to crush the Haitian Revolt after the 1804 massacre?
Understandably, the European nations were embroiled in the Napoleonic wars. But the American Revolutionary War had been over for almost 20 years by then. A large part of their population too, were ...
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