When Britain lost the American War of Independence, the new country's allies, the French, threatened Britain's Caribbean Empire but off Les Saintes the English navy decisively defeated the French in 1782.
La isla de Haití o Quisqueya, como la llamaban sus pobladores originales arawaks y taínos, fue descubierta por Colón el 5 de diciembre de 1492.
When Britain lost the American War of Independence, the new country's allies, the French, threatened Britain's Caribbean Empire but off Les Saintes the English navy decisively defeated the French in 1782.
