Trinidad was a Spanish colony from 1498 until it was captured by which military force in 1797?
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In 1797, a British fleet led by Sir Ralph Abercromby entered the Gulf of Paria, forcing the Spanish governor to surrender the island without a fight. Tobago had a separate colonial history before the two islands were officially joined as a single territory in 1889.
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