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British West IndiesWest Indies
comprises three main island chains that extend in a roughly crescent shape from the eastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and southeastern Florida in the United States to the Venezuelan coast of South America. The West Indies separates the Caribbean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas, in the north, form a southeasterly line.

Sovereignty over nearly all the West Indies islands is distributed among the United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. In addition, the West Indies comprises 13 independent nations and a number of colonial dependencies, territories, and possessions.

The Greater Antilles, comprising the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, lie in the center. To the southeast, arching southward from Puerto Rico and then westward along the Venezuelan coast, are the Lesser Antilles, comprising the Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, and the Netherlands Antilles are often considered part of this third chain.

Antilles.is a term applied to the whole of the West Indies except the Bahamas. The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles, extending in an arc from Puerto Rico to the northeastern coast of South America, include the Virgin Islands, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, southern group of the Netherlands Antilles, and, usually, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
Lesser Antilles
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whereas
it being the fact that; inasmuch as; while at the same time; while on the contrary; as a result of the fact that (because, as, considering, inasmuch as, seeing, since); an introductory statement to a formal document; a preamble; a conditional statement

woe
used to express sorrow or dismay; deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness; regret; misfortune; calamity (economic and political woes)

woeful, woefully, woefulness
deplorably bad or wretched (woeful treatment of the accused; woeful errors in judgment); affected by or full of woe; mournful; causing or involving woe

writ
Law.–.a written order issued by a court, commanding the party to whom it is addressed to perform or cease performing a specified act

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