Invasion of Martinique (1674) Martinique, the headquarters of the French colonial venture in the Caribbean. The Dutch believed that the capture of Martinique would enable them to quickly conquer France's other island outposts and rebuild their own war-ravaged network of Caribbean plantations, giving them dominance of the entire Lesser Antilles island chain. To achieve these aims, the Dutch assembled a powerful invasion force under Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, widely regarded as the greatest naval commander of the age, whose crushing victories had driven the English out of the war. Under his commanded sailed a fleet of eighteen major warships including his 80-gun flagship "De
Martinique amazon to Martinique and became extinct due to habitat loss as Martinique was cleared for agriculture. It has not been recorded since 1722. The Guadeloupe amazon (""A. violacea""), a similarly speculative "species", was said to inhabit the island of Guadeloupe. It is sometimes considered to be the same as ""A. martinicana"". However, it is more widely held to be related or identical to the imperial amazon ("A. imperialis"), the second "Amazona" species of Dominica. Martinique amazon The Martinique amazon ("Amazona martinicana") is a hypothetical extinct species of Caribbean parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is not known from any material remains,