saint-croix
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The Nation includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Establishment
- January 1626: Dutch and English settlers landed at Saint Croix in 1625, joined by some French refugees from Saint Kitts. However, the English expelled the Dutch and French settlers.
Chronology
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1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.
1.1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars - Theatre of war in the overseas colonies
The theatre of war in the overseas colonies during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
- December 1807: British occupation of the Saint Croix island.
- November 1815: Danish reconquest of the Saint Croix island.
2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)
- September 1650: Spanish invasion of Saint-Croix.
- January 1652: A French force of 166 men attacked, and in the following year 1651 had established a colony of 300 on the island of Saint-Croix. From 1651 until 1664, the Knights of Malta (at the time a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily), ruled the island in the name of Louis XIV.
- January 1665: The island of Saint-Croix passed to the French West India Company.
Disestablishment
- November 1815: Danish reconquest of the Saint Croix island.