Caribbean Islands Quotes
Cromwell’s motivation for Empire was different from most other English leaders, but defeating the Catholic Spanish in the New World would be another of God’s victories over the Catholics which Cromwell and many of his Puritan followers thought was the desire and will of God.
Ironically America bought the Louisiana Territory from the French, and the French traded Canada to England for Guadalupe. These are probably the two worst real estate deals ever made by a nation—and it was the same nation in both cases.
Despite a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries, America has frequently found a reason to make an exception to the policy and send troops to a foreign nation to shape the government in a direction to our liking. After WWII America also used covert operations to change regimes or destabilize governments perceived not in America’s interests. Sending troops to Western Hemisphere nations was continued as well but much less frequently than earlier.
In 1672, the English trading company, the Company Of Royal Adventurers, rechartered itself changing it name to the Royal African Company to focus on the Slave Trade. By 1687 the company was given the exclusive right to trade between the Gold Coast and the British colonies in America. James, Duke of York, (later to be King James II, was interested in this company, and it agreed to supply the West Indies with three thousand slaves annually. in 1698, on account of the incessant clamor of English merchants, the trade was opened generally, and any vessel carrying the British flag was, by act of Parliament, permitted to engage in it on payment of a duty.
