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The Battle of Britain
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Panama Fever
Family, Corruption, Empire, and War
in the West Indies
MATTHEW PARKER
Copyright 2011 by Matthew Parker
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information address Walker & Company, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
Published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc., New York
A Division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Excerpt from Tales of the Islands from SELECTED POEMS by Derek Walcott.
Copyright 1964 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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ISBN: 978-0-8027-1744-3 (hardcover)
First Published in Great Britain by Hutchinson in 2011
First published in the U.S. by Walker Publishing Company in 2011
This e-book edition published in 2011
E-book ISBN: 978-0-8027-7799-7
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For my brilliant sister Caroline, with whom I shared many
West Indian adventures
1509 | Spanish settle Jamaica (Spanish Town established 1523) |
1600 | Dutch land on St Eustatius |
1605 | First English attempt to settle in Caribbean at St Lucia, fails because of hostility of Caribs |
1607 | Lasting English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, established |
161848 | Thirty Years War: England, France and Holland v. Spain |
1620 | Establishment of Plymouth Colony |
16234 | English settle St Kitts; Dutch attack Bahia in Brazil |
1627 | English settlers, including James Drax, arrive on Barbados |
1628 | English and Irish settlers from St Kitts colonise Nevis |
1629 | English settlement founded on Providence Island |
163040 | Dutch seize Curaao, Saba, St Martin |
1632 | English and Irish from St Kitts and Nevis colonise Antigua and Montserrat |
163545 | Dutch control northern Brazil |
c. 1635 | French settle Martinique and Guadeloupe |
1639 | Attempted English settlement in Trinidad destroyed by Caribs |
1641 | Spanish drive English settlers off Providence Island |
16426 | English Civil War |
1647 | Richard Ligon and Thomas Modyford arrive in Barbados |
1650 | Willoughby establishes English colony in Surinam |
1651 | Parliamentary force captures Barbados; First Navigation Act directed against the Dutch |
1652 | Hurricanes |
16524 | First Dutch War |
1654 | Dutch and Jews expelled from Brazil |
1655 | English take Jamaica from Spain |
1657 | James Drax knighted by Cromwell |
1659 | Major fire in Bridgetown, destroys more than 200 houses |
1660 | Restoration of Charles II |
1663 | Modyford to Jamaica; Barbados grants 4 per cent duty to the King |
16657 | Second Dutch War |
1665 | April: Dutch admiral de Ruyter attacks Barbados |
1666 | French declare war on England, capture St Kitts, plunder Antigua |
1667 | Hurricane in Barbados; French capture Montserrat; Treaty of Breda grants Surinam to Dutch in return for New York; French conquests returned |
1668 | Another major fire in Bridgetown; 800+ houses destroyed |
1670 | Hurricane in Jamaica; Treaty of Madrid: Spain recognises English possession of Jamaica |
1671 | Quaker George Fox visits Barbados |
16724 | Third Dutch War |
1673 | Hurricane, fire and slave rebellion in Barbados |
1675 | Henry Morgan knighted |
1685 | Monmouth Rebellion in England against James II. Defeated rebels shipped to the West Indies |
1688 | Glorious Revolution in England |
168897 | Nine Years War (also known as King Williams War, War of the Grand Alliance, First French and Indian War): England and Spain v. France, ends with Treaty of Ryswick: Spain cedes western region of Hispaniola to France |
1689 | August: English on St Kitts surrender to French |
1690 | July: English under Christoper Codrington recapture St Kitts |
1691 | April: Christoper Codrington leads unsuccessful English invasion of Guadeloupe |
1692 | June: Port Royal earthquake |
1693 | April: Christoper Codrington leads unsuccessful English invasion of Martinique |
1694 | French invasion of Jamaica |
170213 | War of Spanish Succession (Queen Annes War). England and Holland v. France and Spain. |
1702 | July: French in St Kitts capitulate to forces of Christopher Codrington the Younger |
1703 | May: attempt on Guadeloupe led by Christopher Codrington the Younger abandoned |
1706 | February and March: French ravage St Kitts and Nevis |
1710 | December: murder of Governor Daniel Parke in Antigua |
1712 | July: French lay waste to Montserrat |
1713 | Treaty of Utrecht. Britain gains French sector of St Kitts, and wins asiento |
1722 | August: hurricane in Jamaica |
1730s | Maroon wars in Jamaica |
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