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Saint Croix

One of the main islands of the Virgin Islands of the United States

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Jan 20, 2026
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Did Denmark sold us land in the past for strategic reasons.

Yes — Denmark has sold territory to the United States in the past: Copenhagen transferred the Danish West Indies (today’s U.S. Virgin Islands) to Washington in 1917 in a transaction shaped by strategi...

Jan 21, 2026

What were the terms and diplomatic negotiations behind the 1917 sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States?

acquired — , and — under the Convention of 4 August 1916 for a cash payment of $25 million in gold; the treaty was ratified by both governments in late 1916–early 1917 and the U.S. took formal possess...