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  2. Grenada 17 - Wikipedia

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    Later in the day, a convoy of soldiers arrived from Fort Frederick to retake control of Fort Rupert. Some civilians died in the ensuing skirmish. After the fighting, eight people were lined up against a courtyard wall inside Fort Rupert for a lengthy period of time before finally being shot by firing squad. The eight executed people were:

  3. 1983 Grenada mental hospital bombing - Wikipedia

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    On the first day of Operation Urgent Fury, A-7 Corsairs from the USS Independence (CV-62) attacked enemy command posts at the Fort Frederick and Fort Rupert areas. The Corsairs lacked any maps or ground indication of their target, which caused them to mistakenly bomb the Richmond Hill Mental Hospital, a 183-patient mental hospital near the forts.

  4. United States invasion of Grenada - Wikipedia

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    On 25 October, Delta Force and C Company of the 75th Ranger Regiment embarked in UH-60 and MH-6 Little Bird helicopters of Task Force 160 to capture Fort Rupert (now known as Fort George), where they believed the Revolutionary Council leaders lived, and Richmond Hill Prison, where political prisoners were being held. The raid on Richmond Hill ...

  5. Fort Rupert - Wikipedia

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    Fort Rupert is the site of a former Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) fort on the east coast near the northern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. [1] The unincorporated community on Beaver Harbour [ 2 ] is about 11 kilometres (7 mi) by road southeast of Port Hardy .

  6. People's Revolutionary Army (Grenada) - Wikipedia

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    On 25 October 1983, the vanguard of 7,600 troops from the United States, and 350 from the Caribbean Peace Force, invaded Grenada, encountering resistance from the People's Revolutionary Army. On the morning before the invasion, the PRAF mustered a permanent force of 463 men, supplemented by 257 militia and 58 untrained NJM party members. [ 11 ]

  7. Fort Saint Jacques - Wikipedia

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    Fort Saint Jacques, Fort Rupert, or Fort Charles was a fur trading post on James Bay at the mouth of the Rupert River. It was located in what is now Waskaganish, Quebec, Canada. [1] Fort Charles was founded in 1668 in what is now Nord-du-Québec on the James Bay, at the mouth of the Rupert River.

  8. Jacqueline Creft - Wikipedia

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    She returned to Grenada in 1977, but the government of Prime Minister Eric Gairy refused to give her work "as I was a new mother", Jacqueline complained. [5] On 4 December 1977, Creft's son Vladimir was born. She then travelled to Barbados with the organization Women and Development. She returned to Grenada to participate in the revolution of ...

  9. Waskaganish - Wikipedia

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    In 1776 the site was re-occupied and named Rupert House or Rupert Fort or Fort Rupert. From then until the early 1900s, Fort Rupert was an important trading location, supplying inland communities and other posts via the Rupert River with regular canoe brigades. In 1991, the archaeologist J. V. Chism found the sites of the two Charles Forts. [13]