The Caribbean (pronounced /ˌkærɨˈbiːən/ or /kəˈrɪbiən/) is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles (3,200 km) long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north. From the peninsula of Florida on the mainland of the United States, the islands stretch 1,200 miles (1,900 km) southeastward, then 500 miles (800 km) south, then west along the north coast of Ve...
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Events:
- Naval operations in the American Revolutionary War ,
- War of Jenkins' Ear ,
- Fourth Anglo-Dutch War ,
- Franco-Dutch War ,
- HMS Thunderer ,
- Quasi-War ,
- American Revolutionary War ,
- Anglo-Spanish War ,
- West Indies Anti-Piracy Operations of the United States ,
- Sampson Incident
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- West Indies
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