hispaniola in A Sentence

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Haiti is an island state situated on Hispaniola Island.

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In June of 1504, two Spanish ships from Hispaniola arrived on the coast to rescue them.

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Despite Captain Smollett's misgivings about the mission and Silver's hand-picked crew, the Hispaniola sets sail for the Caribbean Sea.

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O'Brien: a mutineer who survives the attack on the boathouse and escapes, but is later killed by Israel Hands in a drunken fight on the Hispaniola;

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The French influence in Haiti started in 1660, and by 1697 the region was split into two parts with the Spanish occupying the eastern part while the French occupied the western part of the Hispaniola Island.

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The Spanish conquistadores, who were primarily poor nobles from the impoverished west and south of Spain, began building up an American empire in the Caribbean, using islands such as Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola as bases.

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Spanish anti-pirate ships forced Caribbean buccaneers to move from Hispaniola to Tortuga and the limited resources there forced even more piracy, which was further augmented after the English captured Jamaica from the Spanish and freely granted letters of marque to buccaneers, essentially creating a pirate town.

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