| Grenada
is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea including the
southern Grenadines. Grenada is the second-smallest independent country in
all of the Western Hemisphere (after Saint Kitts and Nevis). It is located north
of Trinidad and Tobago, and south of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The
recorded history of Grenada begins in 1498, when Christopher Columbus
first sighted the island and named it Conception. At the time of this
settlement, the island was occupied either by Island Caribs (Kalinago) or
by their mainland cousins, the Kariņa. After a failed English settlement
attempt, the French 'purchased' the island from the indigenous people in
1650, which resulted in warfare with the Caribs of Dominica and St.
Vincent who of course feared losing their trade routes to the mainland. The island
was ceded to the United Kingdom in 1763 by the Treaty of Paris. Grenada
was made a Crown Colony in 1877. |
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