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The Capture of Saint Vincent was a French invasion that took place between 16 and 18 June 1779 during the American Revolutionary War.A French force commander named Charles-Marie de Trolong du Rumain landed on the island of Saint Vincent in the West Indies and quickly took over much of the British-controlled part of the island, assisted by local Black Caribs who held the northern part of the ...
St. Vincent Militia Joseph Chatoyer , the chief of the Black Caribs in Saint Vincent , in an 1801 engraving The First Carib War (1769–1773) was a military conflict between the Carib inhabitants of Saint Vincent and British military forces supporting British efforts at colonial expansion on the island.
Joseph-Hyacinthe Bellerose (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf jasɛ̃t bɛlʁoz]; July 12, 1820 – August 13, 1899) was a Canadian militiaman and politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, the House of Commons of Canada, the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, the Senate of Canada and as the mayor of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec.
Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1890s. The indigenous inhabitants of the islands of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were various Amerindian groups. The arrivals of Europeans in the early 16th century did not lead to long term settlement, only in 1717 did the French occupy the island in Barrouallie, though the English laid claim on St. Vincent in 1627.
Map of Saint Vincent following First Carib War. The Second Carib War (1795–1797) took place on the island of Saint Vincent between 1795 and 1797. The conflict pitted large numbers of British military forces against a coalition of Black Carib, runaway slaves, and French forces for control of the island.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (/ ˌ ɡ r ɛ n. ə ˈ d iː n z / ⓘ GREN-ə-DEENZ), sometimes known simply as Saint Vincent or SVG, [9] is an island country in the eastern Caribbean.It is located in the southeast Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, which lie in the West Indies, at the southern end of the eastern border between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
The Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force receives training from the United States Southern Command. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The United States Armed Forces consider Saint Vincent and the Grenadines as a partner nation in the Caribbean , along with St. Lucia .
In 1837, 60-100 disaffected African soldiers of the 1st West India Regiment mutinied in St. Joseph, Trinidad. They had recently been conscripted into the regiment after being liberated from illegal slave ships by the Royal Navy. The mutineers seized arms and ammunition, killing one enlisted soldier and setting fire to the officers' quarters.