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In 1877, France bought back Saint-Barthélemy from Sweden for 320,000 gold francs (Louis XVI having ceded the little island 93 years earlier to his friend King Gustav III in return for duty-free trading rights in Gothenburg).
The smaller islands, French Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy, are administrative sub-prefectures (sous-préfectures) of Guadeloupe.
During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.
In 1648, the French staked claim to their part of Saint-Martin and to nearby Saint-Barthélemy.
Sailing north to find and claim islands for the Spanish crown, Columbus named one Saint-Barthélemy after his brother and another Saint-Martin, probably after the saint on whose feast day he had spotted it.