Caribbean Sea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Spain claimed the area, and its ships searched...Ocean in 1513 the Caribbean became the main route...Spanish ships in the Caribbean. Although Spain controlled most of the sea, Britain, France, the Netherlands...Denmark established colonies on the islands along...S. ships into the Caribbean, especially after...across Panama, the United States, in 1903, assumed...