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Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Danish West Indies Nicolai A. Abildgaard (1984) Peder Christian Abildgaard (1973) SørenMary Point Estate (409 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mary Point Estate is a historic property located on the north coast of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands on Mary's Point. The plantation was addedFort Frederik (789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2008-05-22. Retrieved 2008-06-26. Westergaard, Waldemar (1917). The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754). New York: The Macmillan Company. pAnnaberg Historic District (105 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Annaberg Historic District is a historic section of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands where the Annaberg sugar plantation ruins are located. TheEstate Mount Victory (134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Estate Mount Victory, near Frederiksted on Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a sugar plantations listed on the National Register of Historic PlacesHamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices (232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices, also known as United States District Courts Building, in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, UEstate Butler's Bay (236 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Estate Butler's Bay, on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was established as a sugar plantation by 1764. It was listed on the NationalFrederiksted Historic District (199 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Frederiksted Historic District is a historic district located on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. It was listed on the UEnighed (152 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Enighed, located in the Cruz Bay Quarter on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It is theHams Bluff Light (224 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Hams Bluff Light is an historic lighthouse on Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. It was first lit in 1915 under the Danish Government. It was sinceHans Henrik Berg (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
administrator, landowner and planter who served as governor of the Danish West Indies in 1848 and again from 1853 to 1862. The Jossie Gut Historic DistrictEstate La Reine (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Estate La Reine, near Christiansted on Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, dates from around 1750. It was listed on the National Register of HistoricHMS Ramillies (1785) (928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
HMS Ramillies was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 12 July 1785 at Rotherhithe. On 4 April 1796, Ramilies ran down andElla Gifft (657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ella Gifft, also Ella Gift (c. 1882 – 26 December 1964), was a Black entrepreneur and suffragist from the United States Virgin Islands, who founded theFort Christian (604 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fort Christian is a Dano-Norwegian-built fort in Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Built 1672-1680, early in the first successful colonialSlob Historic District (662 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) Slob HistoricUniversity of the West Indies Press (158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
1992. The first book published by the press was Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix by Neville A. T. Hall. ParticularlyEstate Perseverance (178 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Estate Perseverance, near Charlotte Amalie on Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.Hermann Treschow Gartner (230 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hermann Treschow Gartner (born October 1785, on the island of Saint Thomas; died 4 April 1827, Copenhagen), was a Danish surgeon and anatomist. His nameBelvedere, U.S. Virgin Islands (566 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Belvedere is a settlement on the north coast of the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Belvedere lies along North Shore Road orEdmund Bourke (1761–1821) (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Count Edmund Bourke, also Edmond or Edmound Burke (November 2, 1761 in St. Croix - August 12, 1821 in Vichy, France) was a Danish diplomat who negotiatedAnna Salmberg (338 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Anna Salmberg, née Brinck (1788, Copenhagen – 1868, Åbo), was a Finnish educator. She was the founder and manager of Salmbergska flickpensionen ('SalmbergEdith L. Williams (1,650 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Elementary School from the Moravian School in 1917. In that year, the Danish West Indies was sold to the United States and the Colonial Law of 1906 passedReef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District (665 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District is a historic section of Saint John, United States Virgin Islands located on the south central coast adjacentJacob Mendes Da Costa (682 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, Danish Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an AmericanGrove Place, U.S. Virgin Islands (592 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
David Jackson. Jackson was a vocal advocate for civil rights in the Danish West Indies. He campaigned for the right to free speech and assembly, and forBeck Grove, U.S. Virgin Islands (352 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
included) for 19,000 dlrs. and an annuity of Ps. 700. Lunn, lla. "The Danish West Indies – building a colony" (PDF). Lunn & Co. Retrieved 2 July 2021. "StatisticsEstate Botany Bay (340 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Estate Botany Bay, near Charlotte Amalie on Saint Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. ItCaribbean campaign of 1803–1810 (1,090 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Caribbean campaign of 1803–1810 was a series of military contests mainly in the West Indies spanning the Napoleonic Wars involving European powersCharles Warren Currier (351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Charles Warren Currier Born March 22, 1857 St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Danish West Indies Died September 23, 1918(1918-09-23) (aged 61) Maryland, U.S.Prosperity, U.S. Virgin Islands (68 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Prosperity is a settlement and former sugar plantation on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Today it is a demonstration farmPaul Erdmann Isert (898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Paul Erdmann Isert (1756 – 21 January 1789) was a German-Danish surgeon, botanist and planter He was the first scientist to identify the bird Red BishopAnnaberg, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Annaberg is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Annaberg (Kings Quarter No. 27, 28, 32, Centre Police DistrictLa Reine, U.S. Virgin Islands (86 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
La Reine is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. La Reine is a former sugar cane plantation. It was for a whileMount Pleasant, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mount Pleasant, Saint Croix is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. In 1816, Mount Pleasanf (Northside QuarterPearl, U.S. Virgin Islands (87 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pearl is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Pearl is a former sugar plantation. It was for a while owned byBertha C. Boschulte (1,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bertha C. Boschulte (March 8, 1906 – August 18, 2004) was an American educator, women's rights activist, statistician and politician. During her tenureUpper Love, U.S. Virgin Islands (150 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Upper Love is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. In 1816, IJpper Love (Princes Quarter No. 18 &. 19, CentreThomas Reed (architect) (186 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Thomas Reed (1817–1878), was a Danish architect born in the 19th century in the Saint Croix Island (in the time when it was a dependent territory of theCastle Coakley, U.S. Virgin Islands (92 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Castle Coakley is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Castle Cockley is a former sugar plantation. It was for1799 in Denmark (75 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
naval officer, plantation owner and acting Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (died 1873) 22 March – Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, zoologist and zoologyWaldberggaard, U.S. Virgin Islands (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Waldberggaard is a settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Waldberggaard was originally the name of a sugar plantationSprat Hall Beach, U.S. Virgin Islands (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sprat Hall is an estate on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Sprat Hall sugar plantation traces its history back to 1549,Sprat Hall Beach, U.S. Virgin Islands (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Sprat Hall is an estate on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. Sprat Hall sugar plantation traces its history back to 1549,Kongen af Assianthe (645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
voyages in the triangular trade between Copenhagen, West Africa, the Danish West Indies, and Copenhagen. That is, she was a slave ship, using her middle deckMosquito Bay Plantation (692 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mosquito Bay plantation was owned by Johan Lorentz Carstens, who was also the owner of the plantations Perlen on Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands andCaneel Bay (1,252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Caneel Bay was a resort set on a 170-acre peninsula in the Virgin Islands National Park. The resort, near picturesque beaches, is a vacation destinationHDMS Lougen (266 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
warship HMS Arab in a single action. When the British captured the Danish West Indies in 1801 Lougen was part of the booty. The British later returned herHMS Hart (1805) (789 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
numerous small merchant vessels and participated in the capture of the Danish West Indies in December 1807. The Navy sold her in 1810. On the evening of 3 AprilHMS Hart (240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
numerous small merchant vessels and participated in the capture of the Danish West Indies in December 1807. The Navy sold her in 1810.loupe. The British RoyalFrederik Christian von Meley (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
administrator, and surveyor who settled on the island of Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies. He is noted for the quality of his maps, which give valuable informationInternational Opium Convention (1,192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The expression International Opium Convention refers either to the first International Opium Convention signed at The Hague in 1912, or to the second InternationalJames Alfred Birch (109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
award-winning collections of the stamps of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Danish West Indies, Greenland, and Faroe Islands. He was a writer for numerous journalsInternational Opium Convention (1,192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The expression International Opium Convention refers either to the first International Opium Convention signed at The Hague in 1912, or to the second InternationalCatarina Gustmeyer (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
In 1772, she was rich enough to send her private merchant fleet to Danish West Indies with relief help after a hurricane. She founded the Det danske GuineiskeHans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen (617 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Danish civil servant and politician. He served as Governor of the Danish West Indies from 1851 to 1855. In 1860, he was elected as Member of FolketingetMilan (surname) (122 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Uruguayan poet and critic Gabriel Milan (c. 1631–1689), governor of the Danish West Indies (later US Virgin Islands) Lyndey Milan, Australian media personalityHeins (166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Heins (died 1689), lieutenant and interim Governor-General of The Danish West Indies during two short periods Donald Heins (1878–1949), Canadian violinistJulius Wulff (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
protection of domestic industry and an opponent of the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. Wulff, Julius. “Have en Nations Forbrugere ogInternational Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (also known as the White Slave convention) is a series of anti–human trafficking1873 in Denmark (765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
naval officer, plantation owner and acting Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (born 1799) 7 November – Thomas Overskou, actor, playwright and historianAbraham Kløcker (373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
February 1730) was a Danish merchant. He served as director of the Danish West Indies Company. Kløcker was born on 28 September 1873 in Aalborg, the sonCharlotte Schimmelmann (263 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the abolition of slavery, even though they owned plantations in the Danish West Indies. The Schimmelmann family became the richest family in Denmark in theAgreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications (296 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Agreement for the Suppression of the Circulation of Obscene Publications is a multilateral anti-pornography treaty that was initially negotiated andAlonzo G. Morón (1,046 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Alonzo Graseano Morón (née Alonzo Graseano Brown; 1909–1971), was a Danish Virgin Islands-born American educator, university president, sociologist, andDavid Hamilton (319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
soldier D. Hamilton Jackson (1884–1946), labor rights advocate in the Danish West Indies and United States Virgin Islands This disambiguation page lists articlesTrade unions in Saint Lucia (183 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e Trade unions in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesRødgrød (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
dessert similar to rødgrød. In the US Virgin Islands, formerly the Danish West Indies before the US purchased the islands in 1917, it is known as red groutList of airports in Dominica (62 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e List of airports in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesMikkel (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Mikkelsen, Fiscal and Governor-General ad interim of St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies, from 27 February 1686 to 29 June 1686 Mikkel Parlo (born 1990), DanishAdolph Achille Gereau (931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
was born December 20, 1893, in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, then Danish West Indies, and died May 24, 1994, in Christiansted, St. Croix. His father wasJørgen Conrad de Falsen (1,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
lieutenant in 1802, he served in Friderichssteen on a cruise to the Danish West Indies in 1802–1803. Returning in poor health, he was granted six months'List of airports in Saint Lucia (75 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e List of airports in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesVigilant (293 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
American schooner that carried the mail and passenger traffic in the Danish West Indies for 130 years Vigilant (S 618), a French Navy ballistic missile submarineList of airports in Saint Kitts and Nevis (80 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e List of airports in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesFrederick Maitland (465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
West Indies campaign (1803–1810) Battle of Suriname Invasion of the Danish West Indies Invasion of Martinique Peninsular War Spouse(s) Catherine PrettijohnHealthcare in Trinidad and Tobago (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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Governor Hansen may refer to: Claus Hansen (died 1706), Governor of the Danish West Indies from 1702 to 1706 Clifford Hansen (1912–2009), 26th Governor of WyomingTrade unions in Grenada (268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
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2017. Roopnarine, Lomarsh (24 August 2016). Indian Indenture in the Danish West Indies, 1863-1873. Springer. p. 76. ISBN 9783319307107. Retrieved 24 AprilMoth (disambiguation) (356 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
"Moth". Charlotte Moth, a British artist. Frederik Moth, a governor of Danish West Indies. Gustav Moths, German rower who competed in the 1900 Olympics Icarus1917 in the United States (3,847 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe. January 25 The Danish West Indies is sold to the United States for $25 million. An anti-prostitution1734 (1,399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
– French and Swiss troops suppress the slave insurrection in the Danish West Indies on the island of Saint John (part of the modern-day U.S. Virgin Islands)French West India Company (890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
VInow. Retrieved April 20, 2021. Westergaard, Waldemar (1917). The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671–1754). New York: The Macmillan Company. ppArendrup (72 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
include: Christian Henrik Arendrup (1837–1913), Governor-General of The Danish West Indies Edith Arendrup (1846–1934), English artist and religious sister ThisHerrnhut (1,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
began from Herrnhut in 1732, when 2 Bohemian Brethren went to the Danish West Indies, and then others went also to Greenland. The first North AmericanHannah (1797 ship) (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
enslaving trade, from early 1803 on. This led the government in the Danish West Indies to encourage the importation of captives prior to the ban taking effect96th Regiment of Foot (1803) (995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
parts of the United States Virgin Islands but at the time part of the Danish West Indies (Denmark–Norway was allied with France from late 1807). From MarchPort au Prince (1790 ship) (2,714 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Prince acquired captives at Cabinda. She arrived at Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies on 21 October. There she landed 380 captives. At some point CaptainJeppe Prætorius (288 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
she had made three voyages carrying slaves from West Africa to the Danish West Indies. In 1802 Prætorius was elected to a leading post in Grosserer-SocietetetPeter Nicolay Skibsted (1,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
junior lieutenant, which led to his service on Friderichssteen in the Danish West Indies in 1803 and 1804. From 1806 to late February 1808 Skibsted taughtList of airports in Antigua and Barbuda (198 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e List of airports in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesWaterlemon Cay (227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Islands. Local lore states that when dueling was outlawed in the Danish West Indies, the remote strip of sand on Waterlemon Cay became the preferred spotInSight Crime (576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e Illegal drug trade in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French WestConrad von Reventlow (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Society, Vol. IX, (1898 [1700-02]) p. 100. Waldemar Westergaard, The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754) (1917), p. 76. "Benjamin Raule (1634–1707)"Royal Edward (1796 ship) (990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
He acquired captives at Calabar, and delivered them to St Croix, Danish West Indies, on 3 May 1802, with 280 captives. Royal Edward left St Croix on 21671 (1,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of Opera (Macmillan, 1992) pp. 696–698 Waldemar Westergaard, The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754): With a Supplementary Chapter, 1755-1917Tourism in Guyana (860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e Tourism in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West Indies WestNational Labour Congress (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
v t e Trade unions in the Caribbean British West Indies Danish West Indies Dutch Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands Netherlands Antilles French West IndiesSteen Andersen Bille (548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Ireland’s NW coast. Søren Bille was with the brig Lougen in 1793-4 in the Danish West Indies. In 1801 he was second-in-command of the blockship Cronborg when heDanish nationality law (2,000 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
human development as well. Immigration to Denmark Citizenship in the Danish West Indies "Retsinformation". "Automatisk erhvervelse af dansk statsborgerskab"Schottmann House (1,657 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Hans Peter Jofoed's slave ship General Muhlenfels on a voyage to the Danish West Indies. The property was listed as No. 53 in the new cadastre of 1806. ItCharles Porterfield Krauth (1,260 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
published a sketch of this visit entitled A Winter and Spring in the Danish West Indies. Upon returning, Krauth was called to congregations in PittsburghHospitaller colonization of the Americas (1,930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
England in Malta. Valletta, Malta. p. 246. ISBN 0-404-17009-9. "The Danish West Indies under Company Rule (1671–1754)". Royal Danish Consulate: United StatesSint Eustatius (6,399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
on St Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands which were previously the Danish West Indies. .. The town is dominated by the red and white Fort Frederik from1638 (2,450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Domain (d. 1714) February 25 – Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. 1683) February 28 – John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford, ScottishIsla de la Juventud (1,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
November 9, 2013. The proposed purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies for $25,000,000 has started a renewal of agitation by American residents