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Rodney Bay history overview
Rodney Bay history strats with the nautical discoveries of Christopher Columbus in the 1490s and the decision of Spain to establish a landed empire in the Caribbean after 1502.
For Rodney Bay history these events initiated a process that is still ongoing in the area.
Two generations more than sixty-six per cent of the people living in the newly-created Spanish towns as well as in Rodney Bay were mixtures between the conquering Spanish and African invaders and the subject populations.
Mixing of any sort remains a notable Rodney Bay history characteristic.
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Since 1930s and '40s Rodney Bay history, travelers have regarded Rodney Bay as one of the most alluring of the Caribbeans.
Its beaches and carnal red sunsets regularly appear in the sort of tourist brochures that promise paradise.
Tourists enjoy today a pice of Rodney Bay history, experiencing the three “pilons” - reggae, reefers and rum.
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Rodney Bay history - learn what once happend
The American revolution brought rivalry for the control of the Caribbean to a peak after the French backed the American rebels. The British had control of much of the Caribbean and the French with the help of the Spanish wanted to break this monopoly. To keep an eye on the French, the British recaptured St Lucia and established a naval base on Pigeon Island in 1778. From here, lookouts could see and monitor the movements of the French at their base in Fort Royal, Martinique to the north. During the winter of 1781-82, French Admiral Compte, Francois Joseph Paul de Grasse in Martinique outfitted 33 French ships who were to sail in a convey with other merchantmen and 9,000 French troops to join with the Spanish for the invasion of Jamaica. However, Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney learned that the French were sailing on April 7 and caught the French fleet on April 12 in the Battle of the Saints. Here Rodney invented some new tactics as a matter of circumstance. Up to this point, fleets would line up in two opposing lines and fire canon at each other. However, two gaps developed in the French lines and Rodney sailed his ships through them. He was thus able to fire at the middle section of ships from two sides and was able to fire canon from both sides of his ships, doubling his firepower. These tactics won the day and were later used in the battle of Trafalgar.
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Rodney Bay Vacations site
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