Historical Organization
Grenada colonial authorities
Grenada colonial authorities
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A special court opens to identify people named in the attainder
📅 27 June 1796The Grenada Court of Oyer and Terminer opened in St George’s on 27 June 1796 to process people named in an act of attainder. Because the attainder had already declared the named people guilty, the...
Pascal Mardel is executed at St George’s Market Square
đź“… 1 July 1796Pascal Mardel, a Roman Catholic priest and participant in the rebellion, was among the first seven of the fourteen selected for execution on 1 July 1796. They were publicly hanged at the Market...
Public executions continue on 9 July
📅 9 July 1796Historical scholarship identifies 9 July 1796 as another date on which insurgents were publicly executed after the collapse of Fédon’s campaign. This record marks the continuation of colonial...
Executions take place again on 26 September
📅 26 September 1796Tessa Murphy’s study records another public execution date, 26 September 1796, as colonial authorities continued punishing insurgents after the rebellion. The surviving summary identifies the date but...
Executions continue on 27 September
đź“… 27 September 1796The day after the 26 September executions, public executions of insurgents continued on 27 September 1796. Recording the consecutive dates makes visible a sustained wave of state violence rather...
The execution campaign continues into October
đź“… 12 October 1796A further public execution date recorded by historians is 12 October 1796. The process of punishment extended months beyond the end of open hostilities in June, while other prisoners remained in...