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In October of 1983<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/25/newsid_3207000/3207509.stm 1983: US troops invade Grenada.]</ref>, US forces invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury. | In October of 1983<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/25/newsid_3207000/3207509.stm 1983: US troops invade Grenada.]</ref>, US forces invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury. | ||
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Revision as of 19:16, November 3, 2010
Grenada is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. Located north of Trinidad and Tobago, it is the second-smallest independent country in the Western Hemisphere. It was a British colony until 1974.
In October of 1983[1], US forces invaded Grenada in Operation Urgent Fury.
| “ | Grenada, we were told, was a friendly island paradise for tourism. Well, it wasn't. It was a Soviet-Cuban colony, being readied as a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time. -- President Ronald Reagan | ” |
