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History of Isla de Providencia


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Early times of the colony

Popularly considered a failed colony due to poor planning, internal strife (seen in faulty leadership and slipping focus on the original purpose) and economic woes, it was founded in efforts to curb Spanish buccaneers in the West Indies and to found a colony based on Puritan values. It was expected to be the more profitable and successful of the colonizing efforts in comparison with the Plymouth colony. Though the small colony was English, the island was also populated by the Dutch. The colony is now known for

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