Grenada Introduction Geography People Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues Print This Frame Grenada Introduction Top of Page Background: One of the smallest independent countries in the western hemisphere, Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19 October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and those of six other ...
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The history of the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983 in the context of Grenadian history, including the U.S. invasion and Gairy.
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Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Search The Web! Free Travel Cheap Tickets Auction Newsletter Immigration Affiliate Make Money Grenada HISTORY Before the arrival of Europeans, Grenada was inhabited by Carib Indians who had driven the more peaceful Arawaks from the island. Columbus landed on Grenada in 1498 during his third voyage to the new world. He named the island Concepcion. ...
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PORTCULLIS LIMITED A non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental, exempt corporation A Short History of Fort George, St. Georges, Grenada J. David Zimmerman, Portcullis Limited By the end of the 17th century England, France and Spain had all laid claim to the lands and islands of the Caribbean. Imagining that great wealth was to be found, the superpowers of the time scrambled for possession and ...
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A SHORT HISTORY OF GRENADA The Arawaks or Taino, an Amerindian tribe from the Amazon basin first settled Grenada in about the 1st Century A. D. The more war like Caribs, who originated in what is now central Brazil, over ran the more peaceful Arawaks and dominated the island until 150 years after Christopher Columbus first named the island Concepci n in 1498. British merchants attempted to ...
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