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man “of brutal manners,” who oppressed the
colonists to such an extent that he was tried and
condemned to be hanged. By pleading that he
was of noble origin he managed, however, to get
the sentence altered to beheading, but no skilful
executioner being available, he was at last shot at
the summit of the hill on the Grand Étang road.
De Cerillac sold the island again in 1665 to the
French West India Company, and on the dis-
solution of that organisation at the end of the
year 1674 it passed to the French Crown. It
remained in the possession of France until 1762,
when it capitulated to Great Britain, to whom it
was formally ceded in the following year. In
1779 it: was recaptured by a French fleet under
Count d’Estaing, but it was restored to Great
Britain by the Treaty of Versailles of 1783. The
year 1795 was a critical one in the history of
Grenada. In that year the notorious French
republican, Victor Hugues, made a determined
effort to regain possession of the island by bring-...”
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