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French West Indies: see West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The 94-year-old Cesaire has been a key figure in the fight for French West Indian rights, and he served as a deputy in the lower house of France's parliament for nearly 50 years. He hoped through the winter and early spring of 1782 to have the assistance of the French West Indian fleet in besieging Charleston; and even after that fleet was defeated in the Battle of the Saints (April 1782), he urged Washington to bring Continental forces from New York for an attack on Charleston. R James gave the debate a pan-European flavour by writing in The Capital from the Slave Trade Fertilised Them: "In 1789, the French West Indian colony of San Domingo [Haiti] supplied two-thirds of the overseas trade of France and was the greatest individual market for the European slave trade. |
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