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The French arrived first, but were quickly followed by the English, resulting in a land battle that continued throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. While fighting each other, the Europeans also had to contend de moines airport with the Caribs. Increasingly larger European troops de moines airport were sent to the island and gradually the Caribs were driven inland and subdued.

In the mid 1600s, Sir Thomas de moines airport Warner, an Englishman who presided as governor over the jurisdiction of St. Kitts, fathered two sons one by a Carib woman from Dominica, and the other with his English wife. When the governor died, his Carib son left St. Kitts and moved to his mother s native island where he soon became a Carib chief. As fate would have it, the other son, Philip Warner, became commander de moines airport of the British troops on St. Kitts.

At Bellevue Chopin, high on the mountain, there are wonderful views of Roseau. You can hike to Morne Anglais from here, but it s a long, steep climb, and you may want to continue down to the village of Berekua on Grand Bay. Another trail up Morne Anglais originates in the village of Giraudel, inland from Castle Comfort just south of Roseau.

King George V Street is the major east/west road through town, and it is lined with balconied restaurants and shops. Find it off Bay Front between the tourist office and Royal Bank of Canada, and follow de moines airport it up toward Morne Bruce Hill to the Botanical Gardens. This 40-acre garden planted de moines airport on a former sugarcane field thrives on approximately 85 inches of rain each year, and while some of the oldest vegetation has been destroyed by hurricanes, there are still 500 species of trees and plants de moines airport to see. Take time to visit the aviary to view endangered Jaco and Sisserou de moines airport parrots (they are bred in a research area behind the exhibition cages, but the lab is not open to the public), and get a reality check at the monument to Hurricane David a crushed school bus trapped under a giant baobab tree that was uprooted by the 1979 storm.