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Under an English Heaven (944 words) |
 | When in the spring of 1967 the tiny Caribbean island of Anguilla rebelled against independence and in favor of colonialism, the action was so misunderstood by the islander's ex-mother country, Great Britain, that two years later the English invaded the peace with 315 paratroopers in a witless attempt to put the rebellion down. |
| The second military invasion of Anguilla took place in 1796, when two French warships landed three hundred troups at Rendezvous Bay, on the western end of the island, with orders to kill every man and woman and child on the island and destroy all buildings and crops. |
| The third military invasion of Anguilla took place on March 19, 1969, when the British sent in their 315 Red Devil paratroopers, who had been transported by frigate and who were supported by helicopters, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, and a stand-by detachment of London policemen waiting on Antigua. |
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Anguilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (420 words) |
| Anguilla is a British overseas territory in the Caribbean, the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. |
| First colonized by English settlers in 1650, Anguilla was incorporated into a single British dependency along with the neighbouring islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the early 19th century, much to the objections of many Anguillans. |
| Anguilla is a collection of flat and low-lying islands and cays of coral and limestone in the Caribbean Sea, east of Puerto Rico. |
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