Description United States Virgin Islands History.
The towns of Christiansted and Frederiksted on Saint Croix and Charlotte Amalie, the capit.
The French took Santa Cruz from Spain in 1650, renaming it Saint Croix.
Driven away by the Carib Indians, he sailed northward to a nearby group of Islands he called Las Once Mil Virgenes, in honor of Saint Ursula.
In 1493, Christopher Columbus landed on an island he named Santa Cruz.
British Virgin Islands, Caribbean history, Oceanic people.
Description United States Virgin Islands History