Re: My version

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> So, in the Virgin Islands, the administration spoke German?

During the Napoleonic wars, England occupied the islands and
administrated them in English; when they were returned after the war,
the Danish administration used English.

> I've read that until the mid-1800s or so, the Black population
> there spoke Dutch and then began to switch to English --after
> abolition of slavery I suppose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negerhollands
Many planters were Dutch.

> But a German-speaking army and a Danish-speaking navy. That's
> surreal. Did they ever invade one another? ;p

It wouldn't make any sense, since there was no Germany then. With
National Romanticism etc and the German drive to unify all
German-speaking area, conflict ensued.


Torsten