On October 25, 1983, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was executed by Bernard Coard's Stalanist sect, the United States armed forces landed troops on the beaches of Grenada.
To understand the whys and wherefores of the invasion of Grenada by 7,000 U.S. soldiers, supplemented by about 300 military personnel from surrounding islands, the reader should know a little about the history leading up to the conflict.
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