EVENT INFORMATION

8
April
1795

British forces assault the rebel camp at Belvedere

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📅 8 April 1795 📍 Grenada

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 Lieutenant Governor Ninian Home. The event exposes the violence of the colonial war and the high stakes for enslaved people who joined the uprising.

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🔖 Marká

Personanan den e suseso aki

Julien Fédon

Ninian Home

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

British colonial forces

Fédon’s revolutionary forces