First Carib War
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Was a military conflict between the Carib inhabitants of Saint Vincent and British military forces supporting British efforts at colonial expansion on the island.
Chronology
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January 1773: The British commissioners involved in the military assault on the Caribs in 1772 were Governor William Young and General Robert Melville. The Caribs were the indigenous people of the Southern portion of Saint Vincent Island, and the British sought to remove them from the territory through force.
January 1774: British unfamiliarity with the windward lands of the island and effective Carib defence of the island's difficult mountain terrain blunted the British advance, and political opposition to the expedition in London prompted an enquiry and calls for it to be ended. With military matters at a stalemate, a peace agreement was signed in 1773 that delineated boundaries between British and Carib areas of the island.
