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Article: St. Kitts and Nevis: Chapter 2A. General Informatiom
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Chapter 2A. General Informatiom
St. Christopher (hereafter, St. Kitts) and Nevis share a long
history of
British colonization. St. Kitts has been referred to as the "mother
colony of
the West Indies," a reflection of its status as the first English
colony in
the Caribbean. Although discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493,
St. Kitts
was not settled by Europeans until 1623, when a small group of Britons
established themselves at Sandy Bay. As elsewhere in the Caribbean,
the French
were not far behind; they established settlements the following year.
Nevis
was colonized in 1628 by an English party dispatched from St. Kitts.
The British and French ...