Creating the Caribbean -- The Colonial West Indies, pt. 1, 1496-1697
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Colonization of Tobago in the Windward Islands
Soitit was founded and destroyed or evacuated many times through the 16 hundreds. Their main enemies included the spanish, the caribs and the dutch. And they were able to found a significant colony on the island of tobago in the windward islands called new curland. But ith is an illustration of how strange and unpredictable this whole process was,. In a sense, kind of crazy and just delusionally ambitious people had to be to even try to take on this dangerous, bizarre project."
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