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Julien Fédon

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Julien Fédon

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Fédon’s Rebellion begins with attacks on Gouyave and Grenville

📅 3 Maart 1795

Julien Fédon and allied French-speaking free people, alongside enslaved participants, launched coordinated attacks on Gouyave and Grenville. Historians describe the uprising as a revolt against...

British forces assault the rebel camp at Belvedere

📅 8 April 1795

British forces attacked Fédon’s fortified camp at Belvedere. The attack failed. Local historian John Angus Martin records that rebels subsequently executed more than 40 British hostages, including...

British assault defeats the remaining rebel forces

📅 19 Juni 1796

British forces captured the remaining rebel strongholds and ended open hostilities in Fédon’s Rebellion. Enslaved and free rebels faced death, capture, execution, or deportation in the repression that...