Lesser Antilles

Examples of Lesser Antilles in the following topics:

• The French Empire

  • During the 17th and 18th centuries, France ruled much of the Lesser Antilles at various times.
  • Nicknamed the Pearl of the Antilles, Saint-Domingue became the richest colony in the Caribbean until a 1791 slave revolt, which began the Haitian Revolution, led to freedom for the colony's slaves in 1794.

• The Rise of the African Slave Trade

  • Great Britain's existing colonies in the Lesser Antilles and its effective naval control of the Mid-Atlantic forced other countries to abandon their enterprises due to inefficiency in cost.

• The Expansion of Europe

  • Columbus' second voyage landed in the Caribbean, on an island he named Dominica, and continued northward through the Lesser and Greater Antilles.

• False and True Pelves

  • The false (greater) pelvis is larger and superior to the true (lesser) pelvis where the pelvic inlet is located.
  • Depending on what is included in the description these groupings are often termed true (lesser) or false (greater) pelves.
  • The true or "lesser" pelvis is bounded in front and below by the pubic symphysis and the superior rami of the pubis; above and behind, by the sacrum and coccyx; and laterally, by a broad, smooth, quadrangular area of bone, corresponding to the inner surfaces of the body and superior ramus of the ischium, and the part of the ilium below the arcuate line .
  • The pelvic splanchnic nerves arising at S2-S4 are in the lesser pelvis.
  • The greater pelvis (yellow) is larger and superior to the lesser pelvis (red) where the pelvic inlet is located.

• In the South: The Haitian Revolution

  • The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) began as a slave insurrection in French colony of Saint-Domingue and culminated in the abolition of slavery in the French Antilles and the founding of the Haitian republic.
  • Meanwhile, refocusing on Europe, Napoleon sold the Lousiana territory to the United States in 1803 and began to lose interest in his failing ventures to reestablish slavery in the Antilles.

• The Hyoid Bone

  • The hyoid bone consists of a central body and two pairs of cornua, or horns, termed greater and lesser cornua.
  • The lesser horns are two smaller eminences which project superiorly to the join between the greater cornua and body and are attached to the body by fibrous tissue.
  • As with the greater cornua the lesser cornua provide a platform for muscle and ligament attachment specifically for the stylohyoid ligament.

• The Cuban War of Independence

  • ., the Antilles, and Latin America, "El Partido Revolucionario Cubano, or "The Cuban Revolutionary Party," was officially proclaimed on April 10, 1892, with the purpose of gaining independence for both Cuba and Puerto Rico.

• Slavery and Politics

  • The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) began as a slave insurrection in the French colony of Saint-Domingue and culminated in the abolition of slavery in the French Antilles and the founding of the Haitian republic.

• Conditions for Wave Interference: Reflection due to Phase Change

  • Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superimpose to form a resultant wave of greater or lesser amplitude.
  • Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superimpose to form a resultant wave of greater or lesser amplitude.

• Pelvimetry