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This week episode 203, Dominica and St. Lucia.

The French fleet under Admiral Distang had come to America in July 1778

as part of the new Franco-American Alliance.

France and Britain had gone to war a few months earlier.

France hoped to use the war in America to take advantage of a weakened Britain and recover some of the colonies that had lost to

Britain in the Seven Years War. Before the war, some French leaders even hope that the North American colonies in rebellion might be willing to put themselves under the authority and protection of the King of France.

While it quickly became apparent that that would not happen, an independent North America would weaken Britain and perhaps at least open up some valuable trading relationships.

With the control of North America seemingly off the table, France

focused more on the West Indies, or what we today call the Caribbean. These island colonies brought immense amounts of wealth to whoever

controlled them. I'm not going to go through the exact breakdown of who controlled which islands

since there are probably over a hundred little islands, some of which

were divided between multiple countries.

These very frequently changed hands over the course of the 18th century. Of course at the time Spain dominated the region

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