Both played for the West Indies and Barbados. Both played for the West Indies and Guyana. Hawks have been found in places such as Central America, the West Indies, and Jamaica. Fleet Problems included the Caribbean, near Central America, the West Indies, and Hawaii. American merchants obtained limited rights to trade in the British West Indies. Her parents were immigrants from Nevis in the West Indies. The British nevertheless seized American ships carrying goods from the French West Indies. Thuram was born in Guadeloupe in the French West Indies. See&colon; History of the British West Indies. From 1958 to 1962 Grenada was part of the Federation of the West Indies. The colony was economically successful, engaging in trade with England and the West Indies. The US agreed to restricted commercial access to the British West Indies. Roosevelt had expected that the Japanese would attack either the Dutch East Indies or Thailand. Dutch Martins fought in the defense of the Dutch East Indies. The population of the Dutch East Indies was never purely European.