Les Saintes Passage
Les Saintes Passage (french: Canal des Saintes) is a strait in the Caribbean. It separates the archipelago of Îles des Saintes, from Basse-Terre Island (Guadeloupe). To ensure control of Les Saintes Passage, France built Fort Napoléon des Saintes. History In April 1782, it was the place - as well as the waters separating Guadeloupe from Dominica - of a major naval battle, the Battle of the Saintes, having given the victory to the Royal Navy, British Navy, commanded by George Brydges Rodney, George Rodney, over the under the orders of François Joseph Paul de Grasse , Count of Grasse as part of the US Revolutionary War. Les Saintes Passage is located in an area of high seismicity related to the subduction zone between the Caribbean Plate and the North American Plate. It is therefore frequently the epicenter of earthquake that strike the south of Guadeloupe and the archipelago of Saintes on November 21, 2004, with significant magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter scale. Traffic ...
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