The first salute to the Colors may have occurred one month earlier. It is debatable if a Colonial merchantman received a formal salute from Fort Frederik on the Danish island of St Croix (The birth of our Flag page 13 published 1921) and (Americas Library) Translated from the Danish Wikipedia article on Frederiksted "Frederiksted is a town on St Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands which were previously the Danish West Indies. .. The town is dominated by the red and white Fort Frederik from the 1750s. The fort has special meaning to both USA and Denmark-Norway. It was from here that the first foreign salute of recognition of USA independence was given in 1776."
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The first salute to the Colors may have occurred one month earlier. It is debatable if a Colonial merchantman received a formal salute from Fort Frederik on the Danish island of St Croix (The birth of our Flag page 13 published 1921) and (Americas Library) Translated from the Danish Wikipedia article on Frederiksted "Frederiksted is a town on St Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands which were previously the Danish West Indies. .. The town is dominated by the red and white Fort Frederik from the 1750s. The fort has special meaning to both USA and Denmark-Norway. It was from here that the first foreign salute of recognition of USA independence was given in 1776."
Hartog, Johannes (1976). History of St. Eustatius. Central U.S.A. Bicentennial Committee of the Netherlands Antilles : distributors, De Witt Stores N.V.
Aspinall, Sir Algernon Edward (1927). "St. Eustatius & Saba". The Pocket Guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, Bermuda, the Spanish Main, Surinam, and the Panama Canal. Sifton, Praed & Company, Limited. p. 343.
Hartog, Johannes (1976). History of St. Eustatius. Central U.S.A. Bicentennial Committee of the Netherlands Antilles : distributors, De Witt Stores N.V. p. 21.
Dijkhoff, Marta, Silvia Kowenberg, and Paul Tjon Sie Fat. Chapter 215 "The Dutch-speaking Caribbean Die niederländischsprachige Karibik." In: Sociolinguistics / Soziolinguistik. Walter de Gruyter, 1 January 2006. ISBN3110199874, 9783110199871. Start: p. 2105. CITED: p. 2108.
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"St Eustatius". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
"St Eustatius". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
"Prehistoric Period (c. 1300 BC – AD 1492)". St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research. Retrieved 2 July 2020. Source covers growing Jewish population, but gives no numbers.
"About Us". St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
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"[Home page]". Andrew Doria – The First Salute, Inc. Archived from the original on 16 December 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014.