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brimstone hill fortress


states: [saint kitts and nevis]

category: cultural

year: 1999

location: Parish of St Thomas, St Christopher (St Kitts)

region: Latin America and the Caribbean

latitude/longitude: 17.3469400000, -62.8372200000

Brimstone Hill Fortress

Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park is an outstanding, well-preserved example of 17th- and 18th-century military architecture in a Caribbean context. Designed by the British and built by African slave labour, the fortress is testimony to European colonial expansion, the African slave trade and the emergence of new societies in the Caribbean.

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