British assault defeats the remaining rebel forces

Clause IV made an enslaved witness found guilty of knowingly giving false evidence liable to the same punishment as the accused person would have faced, or another punishment the court considered...

Clause II prescribed public execution by hanging for death sentences and required the person to be kept free from intoxication from trial through execution. It left the body’s later disposition to the...

Clause II directed people sentenced to hard labor in chains to clear the interior woods and make roads across Grenada, under overseers and a sufficient guard paid at public expense. The provision...

Clause VII required a court and jury to value a person sentenced to death, banishment, or chain labor at up to £100 according to trade or occupation, and authorized public payment of that amount to...

Captain Jossey, representing the French forces in Grenada, signed articles of capitulation at Gouyave with British Major-General Oliver Nicolls. British accounts say the agreement ended rebel...

The 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...

On 30 June 1796, Catholic priest Pascal Mardel was among forty-seven prisoners brought before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The court asked why execution should not be awarded; a jury found the...

After forty-seven prisoners were sentenced, Governor Alexander Houston declined to execute all of them at once and selected fourteen he considered “most notorious” for execution on 1 July 1796. The...

Pascal 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...

Historical 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...