Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . ure withrather a slight foundation of fact. St. Lucia has, however, a wonderful record ofbattles on land and sea which well attests the brav-ery of the peoples who fought for supremacy in theSpanish Main in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. In 1605 sixty-seven colonists landed atSt. Lucia and took possession in the name of Jamesthe First of England. Two months later the Caribsdrove them into the sea. It was more than thirtyyears before another attempt at settlement wasmade by a British colony and with the same 1642 t
Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months . ure withrather a slight foundation of fact. St. Lucia has, however, a wonderful record ofbattles on land and sea which well attests the brav-ery of the peoples who fought for supremacy in theSpanish Main in the seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies. In 1605 sixty-seven colonists landed atSt. Lucia and took possession in the name of Jamesthe First of England. Two months later the Caribsdrove them into the sea. It was more than thirtyyears before another attempt at settlement wasmade by a British colony and with the same 1642 the king of France, who had assumed thesovereignty of a large part of the West Indies, soldSt. Lucia to two Frenchmen for about eighty thou-sand dollars. These Frenchmen established a col-ony, which was attacked and conquered in 1664by a party of English from Barbados; but thetreaty of Breda gave the island back to Lucia changed hands many times, and was alsoa neutral ground during the next fifty 1756 to 1782, France and England fought. ST. LUCIA 157 again and again for the possession of St. greatest and most decisive conflict was onApril 12, 1782, a naval battle which I have alreadydescribed, when Admiral Rodney almost annihilatedthe French fleet and took De Grasse, the Frenchadmiral, a prisoner; for which service he was madea peer of the realm and received a pension of twothousand pounds for himself and his heirs. TheFrench government was restored by treaty in 1784,and under the Directory, in February, 1794, Gen-eral Ricard, the French governor of St. Lucia,abolished negro slavery throughout the FrenchAntilles, forty years before English emancipation inthe West Indies, and seventy years sooner than theabolition of slavery in our own republic. Strangeas it seems, this blow for freedom was struck fromParis by the leaders of the French Revolution. Bloody battles continued to be fought betweenthe French and English for the ownership of , fro
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