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Reports that news of the arrival of the enemy's fleet from Cadiz at Martinique, was...

Catalogue reference: CO 101/42/16

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CO 101/42/16
Date
1805 June 1
Description

Reports that news of the arrival of the enemy's fleet from Cadiz at Martinique, was received at Barbados on 15 May; reports he arrived in Grenada on 17 May; reports logistics involved in his taking command of the government; refers to 'Negro labour' [enslaved labour]; refers to increase of colonial corps consisting of two officers, and 54 'coloured or Black people'; related enclosures.

Frederick Maitland, Grenada, Folios 45 - 54.

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