books.google.co.za - Robert Amandus Johnson chronicled this period of the history of Saint Croix from 1770-1776 and the remarkable relationship of the Island to the emerging American Nation. It relates, what is believed to be, the first foreign recognition of the American "Stars and Stripes." This occurred in Christiansted,...http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Saint_Croix_1770_1776.html?id=UWs4UfLaFX4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSaint Croix 1770-1776