A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.
Source: Webster's dictionary1849 saw an emigration of Protestant religious exiles from Madeira to the United States, by way of Trinidad and other locations in the West Indies. Source: Internet
About the time of the Mexican–American War in 1846, the United States Navy had grown strong and numerous enough to eliminate the pirate threat in the West Indies. Source: Internet
According to the Dominican friar Diego Durán in The History of the Indies of New Spain (published c. 1581), mushrooms were eaten in festivities conducted on the occasion of the accession to the throne of Aztec emperor Moctezuma II in 1502. Source: Internet
A complex plan to distract the British by threatening their possessions in the West Indies failed when a Franco-Spanish fleet under Admiral Villeneuve turned back after an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre on 22 July 1805. Source: Internet
After being selected in the squad twice against New Zealand, Leon finally made his debut when West Indies played its 500thTest against Bangladesh on September 13, 2014 in St Lucia when he became the 300th West Indian to play Test cricket. Source: Internet
Additionally, all of the West Indies players who arrived on Thursday following the end of the Indian Premier League in the United Arab Emirates, have passed initial health checks. Source: Internet