The Rhythm Divine by Enrique Iglesias- Les Saintes, Guadeloupe
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N 15° 52.509 W 061° 34.945
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Terre-de-Haut is the easternmost island in the Îles des Saintes, part of the archipelago of Guadeloupe.
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Location: Guadeloupe
Date Posted: 02/28/2023
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The strategic position of Terre-de-Haut was important. In August 1666 French victory over the British ensured French sovereignty over these islands. However, from 1759 to 1815, alternations of British and French Dominions. In 1777 France built the defensive system Fort Napoléon des Saintes. In April 1782 the Battle of the Saintes. The British, who occupied les Saintes in 1809, kept Fort Joséphine and added water butt to it.
From the later French dominion it became a penitentiary from 1851, but it was ravaged by a hurricane in 1865. It continued however to welcome convicts on the way towards Îles du Salut, in French Guiana until 1902.
In 1871, Îlet à Cabrit became a place of quarantine: a lazaretto, was opened instead of the penitentiary.
The local vocabulary says: "to go up" to move towards the windward quartier (to Fort Napoléon) and "to go down" to move towards the leeward quartier (to Pain-de-sucre).
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