Saint Kitts and Nevis

Two entries in a federation of two islands, and each one carries a claim its own island would rather not simplify. Above Sandy Point Town stands Brimstone Hill, a British artillery fortress raised over more than a century from 1690 by enslaved African labour and surrendered to the French in February 1782 — a UNESCO property whose builders are named in UNESCO's own citation. Charlestown on Nevis is where Alexander Hamilton was born, on a date he gave as 11 January in a year that is still argued between 1755 and 1757, and the house that bears his name there is a 1983 reconstruction on a site the tradition only reaches back to about 1903.