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Saint Kitts and Nevis

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Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park on a hill on St. Kitts is home to one of the best-preserved 17th and 18th century fortifications in the Americas. The fortress, designed by the British and built by African slave labor, is an example of colonial expansion and African slave trade in the Caribbean. Brimstone Hill Fortress is virtually a man-made outgrowth of the natural hill. St. Kitts was the first Caribbean Island permanently settled by both the English and the French who shared the island between 1627 and 1713 and battled often for control of the fort until the 1783 Treaty of Paris restored St. Kitts and Nevis and Brimstone Hill to British rule. Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park became a UNESCO site in 1999.
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