Tobago is a beautiful island in the West Indies- the smaller by far of the two known as the twin island state of the republic of Trinidad and Tobago . the country is most southerly in the archipelago known as the lesser Antilles which curves from south america mainland to to the south Anguilla in the north.
- Earliest records show that Tobago on which Columbus never landed was stumbled upon by some Englishmen who promptly claimed it for their king. the island was inhabited by the Belicose Carib Indians who it is said first brought war to the West Indies. These original inhabitants , however, migrated to other island to help their cousins in Dominica and St. Vincent defend their homes against attacks by the Europeans.
- The English busy trying to colonize the island had to contend with the Dutch who had founded a township near Scarborough called Lampsinberg. The Dutch had a hard time fighting off the attacks from the French and the English in battles that were fought in the islands bays and hillsides.
- To this day the island still is dotted with battlements and cannons, silent witnesses of the struggles which took place throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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