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The People’s Revolutionary Army (PRA) was the military of Grenada between 1979 and 1983. The People's Revolutionary Militia served as its reserve force. The two, alongside the Grenada Police and the Coast Guard, were collectively termed as the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (PRAF) from 1981.
A popular militia was created to support the army in the event of an attack on the island. Thanks to help from Cuba, the People's Revolutionary Army quickly saw its numbers increase from around fifty men to around 2,000, a figure greater than that of all the other armed forces combined in the Antilles region.
Hudson Austin (26 April 1938 – 24 September 2022) [1] was a general in the People's Revolutionary Army of Grenada. After the killing of Maurice Bishop, he formed a military government with himself as chairman to rule Grenada.
The invading forces encountered about 1,500 Grenadian soldiers of the People's Revolutionary Army (PRA) manning defensive positions. The PRA troops were for the most part equipped with light weapons, mostly Kalashnikov-pattern automatic rifles of Soviet bloc origin and semiautomatic Czech Vz. 52 carbines, along with smaller numbers of obsolete ...
The Grenada City Council voted to move the monument in 2020, weeks after police killed George Floyd in Minneapolis. GRENADA, Miss. (AP) […] A Mississippi town moves a Confederate monument that ...
Maurice Rupert Bishop (29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary and the leader of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) – a Marxist–Leninist party that sought to prioritise socio-economic development, education and black liberation.
People's Revolutionary Army may refer to: People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina) People's Revolutionary Army (Colombia) People's Revolutionary Army (El Salvador) Popular Revolutionary Army (Mexico) People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada) National Revolutionary Army (China) Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army; Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army
People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada) This page was last edited on 20 May 2017, at 04:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...