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fromSmithsonian Magazine
4 hours ago
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This Jewish Community in the Caribbean Smuggled Gunpowder to the Patriots During the Revolution. A British Admiral Condemned the Island as a 'Nest of Vipers'

A Hanukkah lamp from 1761 from St. Eustatius anchors an exhibition on Jewish wartime support for the American Revolution.
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