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    Stamps and covers from Grenada’s Classics era

    Jun 10, 2022 4 minutes

    On his third expedition to the New World in 1498 Christopher Columbus, exploring the Caribbean Sea to the north-east of Venezuela, sighted a group of three islands with a combined area about equal to the Spanish island of Ibiza. Although he did not venture ashore, he took possession of them on behalf of the Spanish crown, and named the largest Concepcion, after his flagship.

    During the next century several bands of Europeans – Spanish, French, and English – landed and traded with various Carib and American natives; but no permanent settlement was attempted until 1609 when a

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