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- Fédon’s Rebellion (2. März 1795 – 19. Juni 1796) war ein Aufstand gegen die britische Herrschaft in Grenada. Er ist nach Julien Fédon, einem der Anführer, benannt. (de)
- Fédon's rebellion (also known as the Brigands' War, or Fédon's Revolution, 2 March 1795 – 19 June 1796) was an uprising against British rule in Grenada. Although a significant number of slaves were involved, they fought on both sides (the majority being on the side of Fédon and his forces). Predominantly led by free mixed-race French-speakers, the stated purpose was to create a black republic as had already occurred in neighbouring Haiti rather than to free slaves, so it is not properly called a slave rebellion, although freedom of the slaves would have been a consequence of its success. Under the leadership of Julien Fédon, owner of a plantation in the mountainous interior of the island, and encouraged by French Revolutionary leaders on Guadeloupe, the rebels seized control of most of the island (St. George's, the capital, was never taken), but were eventually defeated by a military expedition led by General Ralph Abercromby. Planning for the rebellion began in March 1793, when Fédon started converting his Belvidere coffee and cocoa plantation into a fortified headquarters and planting crops for his army. In early June 1795, two of his colleagues travelled to neighbouring Guadeloupe, then under the control of French revolutionary commissioners to receive arms, training and commissions, one of which made Fédon General-in-chief of the Grenadian rebel army. On the night of 2 March, this force simultaneously attacked Gouyave and Grenville; the former was relatively peaceful, but in the latter the white population was killed. Many hostages were taken. The British made a number of unsuccessful attempts at assaulting Belvidere; the estate was near the top of a very steep mountain, and almost inaccessible. After the failure of one such attack, Fédon ordered the deaths of around 40 white hostages. For their part, the rebel army waged a campaign of looting, pillage and arson on the island's plantations, while skirmishing with the British. Both sides attempted to capture and recapture headlands and outposts with varying degrees of success. As the Royal Navy maintained an increasingly effective blockade of the island, Fédon's army was increasingly isolated and suffering from lack of reinforcements and military supplies. His force also paid the price for destroying so many crops the year before, as now a food shortage began. The British, on the other hand, received a number of large augmentations to their strength until, in June 1796, they launched another, successful assault on Belvidere. Fédon's army was routed, and his fate remains a mystery; it was assumed that he drowned trying to escape to Trinidad, but there were also reported sightings of him into the next century. As a result of Fédon's rebellion, French influence in Grenada was eradicated once and for all. Many rebels were executed, some, especially the slaves, without trial. The island's economy was devastated; whereas it had been an economic powerhouse before the rebellion, plantations and distilleries had been destroyed, causing around £2,500,000 of damage. Although there was a dearth in scholarship regarding the rebellion until the 1960s—particularly in comparison to that of Haiti, for example, since then it has been the focus of increased study, particularly regarding the extent to which it was either a slave rebellion or part of the broader French Revolution. Fédon himself has remained an important figure in Grenadian political culture, and his rebellion is considered to have influenced not only the emancipation of slaves in the Caribbean of the next century, but a revolutionary tradition that came to a head in 1979 with the Grenadian Revolution under Maurice Bishop. Fédon is now seen as important not in merely the rebellion he led but as being at the intersection of a multiplicity of historiographical thought, such as race, revolution, Empire and slavery. Fédon's rebellion has also been the subject of a resurgence of interest in popular culture, having been the subject of a number of plays and poems, and being central to Grenada's tourist industry. (en)
- 费东叛乱（Fédon's rebellion），也称费东革命，是1795年3月2日至1796年6月19日在格林纳达发生的反对英国殖民统治的起义。有大量奴隶参与其中，但部分奴隶也在政府军参战。主要由讲法语的混血自由民领导，意图建立一个共和国，类似于邻国海地革命，在该岛内陆山区种植园主费东（Julien Fédon）的领导下和瓜德罗普岛法国革命领导人的鼓励下，叛军控制了格林纳达岛的大部分地区，但不包括首府圣乔治，最终被拉尔夫·阿伯克龙比（Ralph Abercromby）将军率领的军事远征队击败。 (zh)
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- Without entering into any detail of our rights, we summon you, and all the inhabitants, of every denomination in this colony, to surrender, within the space of two hours, to the republican forces under our command...And we give you notice, that in case of your not submitting, as you are enjoined, you shall be liable to all the scourges of a disastrous war ...
Done at our camp, the fourth of March in the third year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
Julien Fédon, Officer of the Republic, appointed at Guadeloupe. (en)
- Idleness being a Vice contrary to the Spirit Of the Government,
the Energy of the Government, being to watch over the happiness Of the Social Contract, It is therefore the Duty Of the Government to work at extirpating this odious Vice of Idleness. The Eye of the Chief has penetrated into the forests, and instead of wild beasts, has seen there Citizens living separate from the Society of men. The Law does not know man, whom Society does not know. All those who live at a distance from others, are suspicious in her Eyes, She cannot look upon them as her legitimate Children. A Vagabond is a dangerous Monster, every man useless to the Republic ought to be treated as such, the Action of the honest man are public Acts, usefull to the Republic, as well as himself. Now, he who lives retired and concealed does no public Actions, whose Actions are not useful to the public Cause, and from that time he must be considered as a suspicious and dangerous man, this is a man whom Government must prosecute with all the Rigour of the laws in order to make him useful to the common happiness[...] (en)
- Sir, Upwards of one half of the militia having left me, contrary to the most positive orders, I have been prevented from carrying my plans into execution; and as I shall not be able to act offensively until I have at least a number equal to those with which I set out, I thought it advisable to give the part of the militia that remained behind and who bore cheerfully much hardship from the extreme badness of the weather, leave to return to St. George's to refresh themselves, under the positive promise of them returning in two days; in which time it is to be hoped that the weather may prove more favourable for active operations...I must request a supply of blankets and shirts for my troops, as when they laid down their haversacks to engage the enemy, the negroes stole them. (en)
- Time and the defeat of the English forces at Guadeloupe had weakened the remembrance of the heinous crimes by which the vile satellites of GEORGE had sullied the Windward Islands...that from and after the date of this our official declaration, the assassination of each and every individual republican shall be expiated by the death of two English officers, our prisoners. (en)
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- Fédon’s Rebellion (2. März 1795 – 19. Juni 1796) war ein Aufstand gegen die britische Herrschaft in Grenada. Er ist nach Julien Fédon, einem der Anführer, benannt. (de)
- 费东叛乱（Fédon's rebellion），也称费东革命，是1795年3月2日至1796年6月19日在格林纳达发生的反对英国殖民统治的起义。有大量奴隶参与其中，但部分奴隶也在政府军参战。主要由讲法语的混血自由民领导，意图建立一个共和国，类似于邻国海地革命，在该岛内陆山区种植园主费东（Julien Fédon）的领导下和瓜德罗普岛法国革命领导人的鼓励下，叛军控制了格林纳达岛的大部分地区，但不包括首府圣乔治，最终被拉尔夫·阿伯克龙比（Ralph Abercromby）将军率领的军事远征队击败。 (zh)
- Fédon's rebellion (also known as the Brigands' War, or Fédon's Revolution, 2 March 1795 – 19 June 1796) was an uprising against British rule in Grenada. Although a significant number of slaves were involved, they fought on both sides (the majority being on the side of Fédon and his forces). Predominantly led by free mixed-race French-speakers, the stated purpose was to create a black republic as had already occurred in neighbouring Haiti rather than to free slaves, so it is not properly called a slave rebellion, although freedom of the slaves would have been a consequence of its success. Under the leadership of Julien Fédon, owner of a plantation in the mountainous interior of the island, and encouraged by French Revolutionary leaders on Guadeloupe, the rebels seized control of most of the (en)
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