Peter von Scholten
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Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten was a Danish army officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1827 to 1848.
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Portrait of von Scholten at an early age.
Von Scholten's mausoleum in Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen.
Saint Thomas is one of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States. Along with surrou
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…Cristopher Bülow. He served in this role until 1814 when the British occupation of the Danish West Indies ended, and he got his first official position on St. Thomas, as customs toller. Von Scholten continued to advance in the Danish military, becoming major in 1816, lieutenant colonel in 1820, commander of Dannebrog…
Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas in December 2013
Danish West Indies, Saint Thomas, 1 dollar (1889)
Camille Pissarro, A Creek in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands), 1856, National Gallery of Art. Pissarro was born on St. Thomas.
Locals, sailors, and tourists on a St. Thomas street in 1963