Shoremen

The Shoremen were the early British settlers of Mosquitia and their Creole descendants, who inhabited the coastal settlements of the region, the largest of which was Black River, prior to their evacuation to the British Settlements on the Bay of Honduras under the Convention of London in 1787. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}

Spanish map showing the coastal settlements of Mosquitia (1777)

Spanish map by Luis Diez Navarro from 1765 showing the main British settlement at Black River in Mosquitia.

References

1. Diffusion of Plantation Traits in the New World. Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University. 1981.
2. Office, Great Britain Colonial (1955). The Colonial Office List. H.M. Stationery Office.
3. Hitchen, Peter (2008-07-05). Education and Multicultural Cohesion in the Caribbean:the Case of Belize, 1931 - 1981. Lulu.com. ISBN   978-1-4116-6994-9.
4. Beatson, Robert (1804). Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain: From the Year 1727, to the Present Time ... J. Strachan ..., and P. Hill, Edinburgh.
5. Sweetman, Jack (1993). New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Tenth Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy, 11-13 September 1991. Naval Institute Press. ISBN   978-1-55750-782-2.
6. Floyd, Troy S. (1967). The Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Mosquitia. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN   978-0-8263-0036-2.
7. A History of Belize: Nation in the Making. Sunshine Books. 1984.