While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.

In 1635 France claimed Dominica along with all the other ' Petite Antilles ' but no settlement was attempted.

Dominica was officially neutral for the next century, but the attraction of its resources remained ; rival expeditions of English and French foresters were harvesting timber by the start of the 18th century.

In 1761 during the Seven Years War a British expedition against Dominica led by Lord Rollo was successful and the island was conquered along with several other Caribbean islands.

Shortly thereafter, Dominica was transferred from the Leeward Island Administration and was governed as part of the Windwards until 1958, when it joined the short-lived West Indies Federation.

In 1961, a Dominica Labor Party government led by Edward Oliver LeBlanc was elected.

On November 3, 1978, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence by the United Kingdom.

It was replaced after the 1980 elections by a government led by the Dominica Freedom Party under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles, the Caribbeans first female prime minister.

James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.

In 1979, Dominica was hit directly by Category 5 Hurricane David, causing widespread and extreme damage.

Dominica previously maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China, but on 23 March 2004, a joint communique was signed in Beijing, paving the way for diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic.

In 1626, after a secret meeting with Kalinago heads from neighbouring Waitikubuli ( Dominica ) and Oualie, it was decided that in a secret raid they would ambush the European settlements.

Pumice was the major commodity extracted from the island for export, and Dominica produced clay, limestone, volcanic ash, and sand and gravel, primarily for the construction industry.

* Thomas H. Anderson, Jr., Ambassador of the United States to Barbados, Dominica, St Lucia, Antigua, St. Vincent, and St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1984 to 1986, was born in Gulfport.

Henry Wilcoxon ( September 8, 1905 – March 6, 1984 ) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films.

Henry Wilcoxon was born Harry Frederick Wilcoxon on September 8, 1905 in Roseau, Dominica.

In 1829, when Jameson was appointed puisne judge in the island of Dominica, the couple separated without regret, and Jameson visited Continental Europe again with her father.

Her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica ( 1933 – 1935 ); she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring.

His son Thomas became a major general in the British army, was created a baronet in 1786, and served, after his posting to the Bahamas, as governor of Dominica and of the Leeward Islands.

It was developed in the 1970s by groups from Dominica, and was the first style of Dominican music to find international acclaim.

Soca music has evolved in the last 20 years primarily by musicians from various Anglophone Caribbean countries including Trinidad, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, United States Virgin Islands, The Bahamas, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Jamaica and Belize.

* Dominica ( last heard on KLTY FM, Dallas, Texas )

Soca music has evolved in the last 20 years primarily by musicians from Trinidad, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, some bands from Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Haiti, Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

Dominica is an island in the Caribbean Sea, located about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe ( to the north ) and Martinique ( to the south ).

Dominica is especially vulnerable to hurricanes as the island is located in what is referred to as the hurricane region.

The Caribbean Sea offshore of the island of Dominica is home to many cetaceans.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

After successful settlement on the island of St. Christophe ( St. Kitts ), the French Company of the American Islands delegated ( Charles Lienard ) Liénard de L ' Olive and Jean Duplessis Ossonville, Lord of Ossonville to colonize one or any of the region ’ s islands, Guadeloupe, Martinique or Dominica.

It finally, by influence of the neighboring island of Dominica ( La Dominique ), came to be known as Martinique.

Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, north of St. Lucia and south of Dominica

* 2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history.

* 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

* Champagne Hot Springs is a shallow submarine geothermal spring system along the coast of the island of Dominica, Lesser Antilles.

* Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Sea

At the age of eighteen, Fanon fled the island as a " dissident " ( the coined word for French West Indians joining Gaullist forces ) and travelled to British-controlled Dominica to join the Free French Forces.

* Massacre, Dominica, a land on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean

* La Ronde River, on the Caribbean island of Dominica

* Something of, from, or related to the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island nation in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean.

Most down-islanders came from St. Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, St. Lucia and Dominica, although people from every Anglophone Caribbean island can be found on St. Croix.

The music of Dominica plays an important role in the social and culture life of the Antillean island of Dominica.

The Nature island boasts of Cadence-lypso, a genre developed in Dominica and made popular in the French departments of Martinique and Guadeloupe.