St George's, Grenada

The French founded the town in 1650 and built a fort on the promontory above it, finished in stone by 1710; the town itself burnt in 1771 and again on the first of November 1775, after which it was rebuilt in stone above the Carenage. In the courtyard of that fort, on the nineteenth of October 1983, Maurice Bishop and seven others were shot; the American invasion followed six days later.