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Key Historical Events. After a long period of rival French and Spanish claims the islands were eventually secured to the British Crown by the appointment in 1766 of a Resident British Agent, and became a separate colony in 1973 after association at various times with the colonies of the Bahamas and Jamaica.
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Boultbee, P. G., Turks & Caicos Islands. [Bibliography]. Oxford and Santa Barbara (CA), 1991
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Hunter, B. (1996). The Turks and Caicos Islands. In: Hunter, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271258_190
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