Conflict broke out between the French and the indigenous islanders in November 1649 and fighting lasted for five years until 1654, when the last opposition to the French on Grenada was crushed-although the island continued for some time after to suffer raids by war canoe parties from St. Vincent, who had aided the local Grenadan islanders in their struggle and continued to oppose the French.

The wave continued to develop as it approached the Lesser Antilles, and became Tropical Depression Three on August 9 while 115 mi ( 185 km ) south-southeast of Barbados, near the island of Grenada, however, the threat to Barbados was short-lived.

Partly as a result of Marryshow's lobbying the Wood Commission of 1921-1922 concluded that Grenada was ready for constitutional reform in the form of a ' modified ' Crown Colony government.

Politics of Grenada takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Grenada is governed under a parliamentary system based on the British model ; it has a governor general, a prime minister and a cabinet, and a bicameral Parliament with an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.

Grenada and Antigua & Barbuda would require referenda before being able to accede, while St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines would need a parliamentary majority approving accession along with a judicial resolution.

Grenada is a member of the eastern Caribbean court system.

* Grenada, carried on Columbus Communications owned cable system Flow Grenada.

Grenada School District is the public school system.

Grenada has a two-party system, which means that there are two dominant political parties, with extreme difficulty for anybody to achieve electoral success under the banner of any other party.

The wave gradually became detached from the ITCZ, and based on a reconnaissance flight that confirmed the existence of a low-level circulation, it is estimated the system developed into a tropical depression on September 5 while located 255 miles ( 415 km ) east of Grenada.

* Caribbean SuperStation, a Trinidad & Tobago based radio station broadcasting to Barbados, St. Lucia, Grenada, Antigua, St. Kitts, Montserrat and British Virgin Islands

Barbados and Grenada were selected as the sites for the movie based on the novel by Alec Waugh.

For the next three years he would acquire an acute knowledge of traditional Spanish Dancing while producing new works based on Spanish themes — Carmen et son toréro ( Carmen and the Bullfighter ), La Perle de Séville ( The Pearl of Seville ), L ’ Aventure d ’ une fille de Madrid ( The Adventures of a Madrileña ), La Fleur de Grenade ( The Flower of Grenada ) and Départ pour la course des taureaux ( Leaving for the Bull Races ).

Grenada was captured by the British during the Seven Years ' War on 4 March 1762 by Commodore Swanton without a shot being fired.

Grenada was formally ceded to the Britain by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763.

A British relief force was defeated in the naval Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779.

In 1885, after Barbados left the British Windward Islands, the capital of the colonial confederation was moved from Bridgetown to St. George on Grenada.

In 1950 Grenada had its constitution amended to increase the number of elected seats on the Legislative Council from 5 to 8, to be elected by full adult franchise at the 1951 election.

On 10 October 1951 Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage-United Labour won 6 of the 8 elected seats on the Legislative Council in both the 1951 and 1954 elections.

Under the Associated Statehood Act on 3 March 1967 Grenada was granted full autonomy over its internal affairs.

A U. S .- Caribbean force invaded Grenada on October 25, 1983 in an action called Operation Urgent Fury, and swiftly defeated the Grenadan forces and their Cuban allies.

There are no large inland bodies of water on the island, which consists entirely of the state of Grenada.

Some of the drainage features on Grenada remain from its volcanic past.

As head of state, Queen Elizabeth II is represented in Grenada by a governor general who acts on the advice of the prime minister and the cabinet.

Manufacturing industries in Grenada operate mostly on a small scale, including production of beverages and other foodstuffs, textiles, and the assembly of electronic components for export.

Grenada ’ s economy is vulnerable to external shocks considering its high dependence on tourism, exports, and imports of most of the goods that are consumed or invested domestically.

Drivers in Grenada drive on the left hand side of the road.

Grenada announced the resumption of diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China on January 20, 2005.

On October 1983, during the U. S. invasion of Grenada, U. S. President Ronald Reagan maintained that US Marines arrived on the island of Grenada, which was considered a Soviet-Cuban ally that would export communist revolution throughout the Caribbean.

In December, the State Department published a preliminary report on Grenada, in which was claimed as an " Island of Soviet Internationalism ".

Grenada and Romania full diplomatic relations were established on the Thursday 03 April 1975.

A German Government report on fuel prices dated 2010 / 11 stated that the Imperial gallon is used as a unit of measure for fuel in Guyana, United Arab Emirates and Antigua and Barbuda and the US gallon in Liberia, Belize, Colombia, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Myanmar ( Burma ), Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico and the United States.

Hurt died on November 2nd, 1966, of a heart attack in Grenada, Mississippi.

In 1833, Grenada became part of the British Windward Islands Administration and remained so until 1958.

In 1950 Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions, this sparked great unrest-so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the ' red sky ' days-and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation.

* 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

In the British Virgin Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago, the word planass means to hit someone with the flat of the blade of a machete or cutlass.

In the British West Indies, especially Grenada, there have been a spate of large-scale thefts of tons of sand from beaches.

In 1763 was ceded with Grenada to the British when they captured neighbouring Grenada.

It was part of the British Grenada colony from 1763 – 1779 and 1783 – 1974.

There still is a British influence on the island as it was colonised by the British Empire and it is part of Grenada, a Commonwealth state.

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica, establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

Also ceded to the British were Grenada and Saint Lucia in the West Indies.

The territories of the federation eventually became the nine contemporary sovereign states of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago ; with British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands becoming British overseas territories.

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, and Dominica establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

The British also captured Martinique and Grenada in the French West Indies.

French planters and their slaves emigrated to Trinidad during the French Revolution ( 1789 ) from Martinique, including a number of West Africans, and French creoles from Saint Vincent, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Dominica, establishing a local community before Trinidad and Tobago were taken from Spain by the British.

Ultimately Indians were mainly used, shipped to many Indian Ocean islands, East and South Africa, Fiji, British Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Grenada, Suriname and Panama and other places.