Cannabis Sativa October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 thcscience_admin Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main pageContentsCurrent eventsRandom articleAbout WikipediaContact usDonate Contribute HelpLearn to editCommunity portalRecent changesUpload file Languages Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Search Create accountLog in Personal tools Create account Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ContributionsTalk You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: You can view and copy the source of this page:====Miskito revolt==== The new colony suffered setbacks as a result of many of the settlers dying en route and the Miskito Crown showing its dissatisfaction with the gifts offered by the Spanish. The Miskito resumed trade with Jamaica and, when news of another [[Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808)|Anglo-Spanish War]] arrived in 1797, George II raised an army to attack Bluefields, deposing Hodgson, and drove the Spanish out of the kingdom on September 4, 1800.<ref>Sorsby, William Shuman; ''Spanish Colonization of the Mosquito Coast, 1787–1800'', Revista de Historia de América, vol. 73/74, 1972, pp. 145–153</ref><ref>Dawson, Frank; ''The Evacuation of the Mosquito Shore and the English Who Stayed Behind, 1786–1800'', The Americas, vol. 55, no. 1, 1998, pp. 63–89</ref> However, the king died suddenly in 1801. According to British George Henderson, who visited the Mosquito Coast in 1804, many in the kingdom believed that George II had been poisoned by his brother Stephen as part of a deal with the Spanish. In order to prevent Stephen from seizing power for himself, General Robinson spirited George II's young heir [[George Frederic Augustus I]] to Jamaica by way of [[Belize]] and established a regency in his name.<ref>Henderson, George; ''An Account of the British Settlement of Honduras [...]'', R. Baldwin, London, 1811 (2nd ed.), p. 219</ref> With Spanish power over the Mosquito Coast vanished and British influence rapidly returning, the Captaincy General of Guatemala sought full control of the shore from Spain. The Colombian Ricardo S. Pereira, writing in 1883, considered this act a miscalculation on the part of the [[Real Audiencia of Guatemala]], and if they had simply raised an army and marched on the Mosquito Coast, nobody would have questioned that the area was part of the Captaincy General once Spanish power was fully restored. Instead, the Spanish government heeded the old advice espoused by Gil de Taboada and Ezpeleta, and decided against Guatemala's request on November 30, 1803, reaffirming the control of the [[Viceroyalty of New Granada]] over the [[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina]] (used by New Granadan coast guards as a base against British privateers, often coming from the Mosquito Coast itself), and transferring sovereignty of the Mosquito Coast over to New Granada and considering the area a dependency of San Andrés. While Spanish rule was never restored over the Mosquito Coast (instead, the British occupied the Archipelago itself in 1806 during the course of the war against Spain), the Royal Decree of 1803 became the reason for territorial disputes between the [[United Provinces of Central America]] and [[Gran Colombia]] after [[Latin American wars of independence|Latin American independence]], and between Nicaragua and Colombia for the rest of the 19th century.<ref>Pereira, Ricardo S.; ''[http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/6890/ Documentos sobre límites de los Estados-Unidos de Colombia: copiados de los originales que se encuentran en el Archivo de Indias de Sevilla, y acompañados de breves consideraciones sobre el verdadero Uti possidetis juris de 1810] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819083734/http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/6890/ |date=2014-08-19 }}'', Camacho Roldan y Tamayo, Bogotá, Colombia, 1883, {{ISBN|9781141811274}} [http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/6890/123/capitulo_xii_costa_de_mosquitos.pdf Cap. XII] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819102711/http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/6890/123/capitulo_xii_costa_de_mosquitos.pdf |date=2014-08-19 }}</ref> In the meantime George II's brother Stephen made some overtures to Spain, who reciprocated by calling Stephen king and giving him the traditional gifts (albeit less frequently than to George II),<ref name="García" /> but he later changed allegiances and raided Spanish held territory. In 1815, Stephen, styling himself "King Regent [...] of the Shore", and 33 other Miskito notables gave their "consent, assent, and declaration to, for, and of" George Frederic Augustus I as their "Sovereign King".<ref>''Correspondence Respecting the Mosquito Shore [...]'', House of Commons of Great Britain, London, 1848, p. 46. The names of the signatories are printed on pp. 46-47.</ref> His coronation in Belize on January 16, 1816,<ref>''The Honduras Almanack for the year of our Lord 1829'', Legislative Assembly, Belize, p. 56</ref> in a deliberate move to secure British support, marked the end of the regency. Meanwhile, Spain lost rule over New Granada in 1819 and over Central America in 1821, when the [[First Mexican Empire]] was proclaimed. Return to Mosquito Coast.