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The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in the late 1640s. . The small group of Puritan settlers, led by William Sayle, were expelled from Bermuda for their failure to swear allegiance to the Crown and left in search of a place in which they could freely practice their fa
Columbus visited several other islands in the Bahamas before sailing to present-day Cuba and afterwards to Hispaniola. [3] The Bahamas held little interest to the Spanish except as a source of slave labor. Nearly the entire population of Lucayan (almost 40,000 people total) were transported to other islands as laborers over the next 30 years.
Eleuthera (/ ɪ ˈ lj uː θ ər ə /) refers both to a single island in the archipelagic state of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and to its associated group of smaller islands. [2] Eleuthera forms a part of the Great Bahama Bank. [2] The island of Eleuthera incorporates the smaller Harbour Island.
Leaders of the island colonies of Santiago de Cuba and Saint-Domingue viewed Nassau as a menace, and raised a joint expedition of Spanish soldiers and French boucaniers, sending them to Nassau in October 1703 aboard two frigates in the command of the officers Blas Moreno Mondragón and Claude Le Chesnaye. [1]
In 1940, at the start of World War II, President Roosevelt met with Edward VIII to discuss locations for a new United States naval base to be located in the Bahamas. Little San Salvador was considered, as well as Eleuthera and Long Island. [13] In July 1941, two Floridian yacht enthusiasts anchored off the island for two weeks. [14] [15]
A History of the Bahamas. San Salvador Press. ISBN 0-9692568-0-9. Granberry, Julian; Vescelius, Gary S. (2004). Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. The University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-5123-X. Keegan, William F. (1992). The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of the Bahamas. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-1137-X.