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British Honduras is a Crown colony on the Caribbean Sea, south of Yucatan, and 600 miles west from Jamaica. Its early settlement was probably effected by woodcutters from Jamaica about 1638, and from that date to 1798, in spite of opposition from the Spaniards, settlers held their own and prospered. In 1786 the Home Government appointed a superintendent, and in 1862 the settlement was declared a colony, subordinate to Jamaica. It became an independent colony in 1884.
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Annual Report, 1952. H.M.S.O., 1954.
Report of the Settlement Commission on British Guiana and British Honduras. (Cmd. 7533.) H.M.S.O., 1948.
Anderson (A. H.), Brief Sketch of the British Honduras. Rev. ed. London, 1948.
Burdon (Sir J. A.), Archives of British Honduras, 3 vols. London, 1935.
Caiger (S. L.), British Honduras. London, 1951.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1955). British Honduras. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270848_25
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