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Saint Kitts

Also known as Saint Christopher Island

Saint Kitts, formally Saint Christopher, is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands. Thomas Warner founded the first English colony in the Caribbean there in 1623, and the French settled in 1625; the two partitioned the island in 1627. It was the base for further English and French colonisation and passed wholly to Britain in 1713.

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Mentioned in 3 state histories

Colony of Saint Christopher French Saint-Christophe Saint Kitts and Nevis

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Saint Kitts. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-kitts
MLA: “Saint Kitts.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-kitts. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Saint Kitts.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-kitts.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Saint Kitts’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-kitts (Accessed: ).

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