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other data for this location">15.9462°N 84.9299°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">15.9462; -84.9299</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Black River settlement</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">British settlement on the Mosquito Shore</div> <p>The <b>Black River settlement</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> settlement on the <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Coast</a> in <a href="/wiki/Central_America" title="Central America">Central America</a>. It was established in 1732 by a British colonist named <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Pitt_(colonist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Pitt (colonist) (page does not exist)">William Pitt</a> (likely a distant relative of contemporary British politician <a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="William Pitt the Elder">William Pitt the Elder</a>). The settlement, made on territory claimed but never really controlled by <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, was evacuated in 1787 pursuant to terms of the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_Convention_of_1786" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-Spanish Convention of 1786">Anglo-Spanish Convention of 1786</a>. The Spanish then attempted to colonize the area, but the local <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskitos</a> massacred most of its inhabitants on September 4, 1800. The settlement was abandoned, and its remains can still be seen near the village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Palacios,_Gracias_a_Di%C3%B3s,_Honduras&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Palacios, Gracias a Diós, Honduras (page does not exist)">Palacios</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Honduras" title="Honduras">Honduran</a> <a href="/wiki/Gracias_a_Dios_Department" title="Gracias a Dios Department">department of Gracias a Diós</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg/220px-Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg/330px-Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg/440px-Costa_De_Los_Yndios_Mosquitos.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2213" data-file-height="1552" /></a><figcaption>A stylized Spanish map by Luis Diez Navarro from 1765 showing the main British settlement at Black River in Mosquitia.</figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Coast</a> extended from the <a href="/wiki/Agu%C3%A1n_River" title="Aguán River">Aguan River</a> down to the <a href="/wiki/San_Juan_River_(Nicaragua)" title="San Juan River (Nicaragua)">San Juan River</a>. The area was first explored by <a href="/wiki/Fourth_voyage_of_Columbus" title="Fourth voyage of Columbus">Christopher Columbus in 1502</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area where this settlement was established is a lagoon near the mouth of what was then called the Black River, Río Negro, or Río Tinto, but is now known as the <a href="/wiki/Sico_River" title="Sico River">Sico River</a> (or Río Sico). The lagoon is in the northwestern corner of the <a href="/wiki/Departments_of_Honduras" title="Departments of Honduras">Honduran department</a> of <a href="/wiki/Gracias_a_Dios_Department" title="Gracias a Dios Department">Gracias a Dios</a>, between the <a href="/wiki/Caratasca_Lagoon" title="Caratasca Lagoon">Caratasca Lagoon</a> and the present-day port city of <a href="/wiki/Trujillo,_Honduras" title="Trujillo, Honduras">Trujillo</a>, which was then the site of a small Spanish settlement. </p><p>At the time of its settlement, the <a href="/wiki/Sand_bar#Harbour_and_river_bars" class="mw-redirect" title="Sand bar">sand bar</a> at the river mouth was sufficiently high to prevent the passage of most ocean-going ships of the time, a feature that significantly aided the settlement's defence and longevity.<sup id="cite_ref-D684_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D684-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="17th_century">17th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early attempts by the Spanish to settle the area were frustrated by the terrain, tropical conditions, lack of valuable resources, and hostile natives, in particular the <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskito</a>. The first <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> contacts in the area were in 1633 by colonists of the <a href="/wiki/Providence_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Providence Company">Providence Company</a> who had settled the islands of <a href="/wiki/San_Andr%C3%A9s_(island)" title="San Andrés (island)">San Andrés</a> and <a href="/wiki/Providencia_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Providencia Island">Providencia</a>. Since they were principally interested in trade with the natives, the Miskitos reacted more favorably to them. On the capture of those islands by the Spanish in 1641, some of the colonists probably fled to the shore and were taken in by the natives.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The region was also a stopping point for <a href="/wiki/Piracy" title="Piracy">pirates</a>, and its population became somewhat more mixed when a <a href="/wiki/Slave_ship" title="Slave ship">slave ship</a> foundered in the area, eventually resulting in a mixed-race <a href="/wiki/Zambo" title="Zambo">zambo</a> population. </p><p>An informal relationship was established between Miskito rulers and British colonial administrators in <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica" title="Colony of Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, in which Miskito leaders traveled to Jamaica or even England to receive education and have their status confirmed.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late 17th century, British pioneers began logging in the area that is now <a href="/wiki/Belize" title="Belize">Belize</a>, to the great annoyance of Spanish authorities, who made numerous largely fruitless attempts to evict British settlers from that area. During the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Succession" title="War of the Spanish Succession">War of the Spanish Succession</a> early in the 18th century, there were reports of British settlers living on the <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Shore</a>. </p><p>During the 1720s the Spanish made numerous attempts to eliminate the British presence on the Belize shore. Many of the settlers retreated, either inland, or to the <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Coast</a>, when the Spanish came in force, and generally returned after the Spanish left. In 1732, one of these British loggers, <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Pitt_(colonist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Pitt (colonist) (page does not exist)">William Pitt</a>, decided to stay. Pitt's exact lineage is uncertain, but he was probably descended from <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pitt" title="Thomas Pitt">Thomas Pitt</a>, whose descendants also include <a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Elder" class="mw-redirect" title="William Pitt the Elder">William Pitt the Elder</a>, a contemporary of the settlement's founder.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="British_settlement">British settlement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: British settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pitt realized that the Black River area provided an ideal location for a settlement for several reasons. One was that the immediately surrounding land could be cultivated, providing crops for food and export, and there was a rich supply of jungle and sea product to export. The area had a number of water channels leading inland to facilitate (illegal, according to the Spanish) trade with the local natives.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, the entrance to the lagoon from the sea was a narrow channel blocked by a shifting sand bar, making a seaborne attack virtually impossible.<sup id="cite_ref-D684_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D684-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 1739 the settlement had grown to the point that Spanish authorities recognized it as a credible threat to their claims, and considered military action against it. Rising tensions between Britain and Spain that led to the <a href="/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear" title="War of Jenkins' Ear">War of Jenkins' Ear</a> led Jamaica's military governor to request Pitt's assistance in gaining Miskito support in the event of military action, sending Lieutenant Colonel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Hodgson_(British_Army_officer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Hodgson (British Army officer) (page does not exist)">Robert Hodgson</a> to negotiate an agreement with them.<sup id="cite_ref-D684_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D684-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hodgson used Black River as a base for raids against Spanish settlements during the war. </p><p>The settlement received a more permanent British military presence in 1744 after the war widened into the <a href="/wiki/War_of_the_Austrian_Succession" title="War of the Austrian Succession">War of the Austrian Succession</a>. It remained untouched during the war, despite demands from <a href="/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain" title="Philip V of Spain">King Philip</a> for its removal. The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Aix-la-Chapelle_(1748)" title="Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)">Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle</a> in 1748, which ended the hostilities, specified that colonial territories should be restored to the <i><a href="/wiki/Status_quo_ante_bellum" title="Status quo ante bellum">status quo ante bellum</a></i>. Spain interpreted this to include the abandonment of British settlements on all of its claimed territory in Central America, while the British claimed that, since Spain had never controlled the area, it was not Spanish territory to return.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British military fortified the lagoon entrance and maintained a small company of infantry at the settlement, but withdrew it in 1751 due to a lack of manpower. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Seven_Years'_War"><span id="Seven_Years.27_War"></span>Seven Years' War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Seven Years' War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the <a href="/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War" title="Seven Years' War">Seven Years' War</a> broke out in 1756, Hodgson was sent back to Black River, and its fortifications were beefed up. According to a Spanish report, the settlement had 213 palm-thatched houses, 100 white inhabitants, 600 slaves, and 3,000 armed <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskito</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miskito_Sambu" title="Miskito Sambu">zambos</a> living nearby, along with 30 British regulars. A report prepared by Hodgson in 1757 numbered the white British population of the entire coast at more than 1,000.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same report, he valued that year's exports from the coast at £25,000, and described the community as an effective <a href="/wiki/Entrep%C3%B4t" title="Entrepôt">entrepôt</a> for direct trade with the natives, and also indirect trade with the Spanish, all supplied by cargos whose origins were sometimes of dubious legality.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Spanish did not enter into the Seven Years' War until 1762. While <a href="/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain" title="Charles III of Spain">King Charles</a> ordered the taking of Black River and Belize, the British <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Havana_(1762)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Havana (1762)">capture of Havana</a> effective scuttled the idea, and the Miskitos raided many Spanish settlements, ranging as far as <a href="/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica">Costa Rica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1763)" title="Treaty of Paris (1763)">1763 Treaty of Paris</a> secured British logging rights in Belize, it contained no language concerning the <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Coast</a> settlements similar to that in the 1748 treaty, setting the stage for further conflict. When a Spanish representative arrived to oversee what the Spanish believed to be the agreed destruction of Black River's fortifications, he was shown a letter from <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> containing the British interpretation of the treaty language; only the intervention of Pitt and James Ottaway, the military commander, prevented his killing at the hands of the <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskitos</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prosperity_and_internal_friction">Prosperity and internal friction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Prosperity and internal friction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Over the following years the settlement continued to grow and prosper. Trade (legal and illegal) flourished, and plantations grew around the town. A 1771 report put the shore's white population around 200, with 90 of those at Black River. There were about 900 slaves, and more than 100 people of mixed blood, and the settlements documented exports had risen substantially since the 1757 report.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The settlement began to expand more rapidly in the 1771 with major investments led by <a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Lawrie_(British_Army_officer)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Lawrie (British Army officer) (page does not exist)">James Lawrie</a>, a British captain who had been posted to the coast several times. </p><p>While the land occupied was purchased from the <a href="/wiki/Miskito_people" title="Miskito people">Miskito</a>, these new acquisitions led to grumbling among the Miskito about the fairness of the price they were getting for the land. This led the British superintendent, Robert Hodgson, Jr, (the son of Hodgson and Pitt's daughter Elizabeth), to attempt the establishment of a land title registry and political structures that other British colonies possessed. This led to internal divisions within the independent and free-spirited settlers, and demands for Hodgson's recall. The Jamaican governor delayed until increasing complaints about Hodgson, among them affidavits concerning his attempt to gain possession of <a href="/wiki/Corn_Islands" title="Corn Islands">Great Corn Island</a> by driving out its settlers, were reviewed and relayed to London that orders were issued in 1775 for his recall.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_years">Later years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Later years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James Lawrie was appointed the settlement's superintendent in 1776, and governed it until its final evacuation in 1787. A Spanish captain reported in that year that the town, which he was able to see from his ship, had four wood-construction houses with shingled roofs, a hospital, and an active sawmill and shipyard.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Black River continued to be the economic center of the shore, which, although it was still economically viable, had suffered somewhat from a decline in the value of its exports. The ongoing uncertainty over its legal status was also becoming of increasing concern to politicians in London, especially when Spain entered the <a href="/wiki/War_of_American_Independence" class="mw-redirect" title="War of American Independence">War of American Independence</a> in 1779, citing among other reasons the British failure to evacuate the coastal settlements in 1763. </p><p>Settlers and natives participated in the British <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_San_Fernando_de_Omoa" title="Battle of San Fernando de Omoa">capture of Omoa</a> in October 1779, but Spanish colonial authorities recaptured the fort there after its garrison was reduced by tropical disease. Most of Black River's military garrison, and a large number of Miskito allies, were recruited to participate in Britain's disastrous 1780 <a href="/wiki/San_Juan_Expedition_(1780)" title="San Juan Expedition (1780)">expedition against Nicaragua</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spanish took advantage of the settlement's weakened defences to raid it, scattering its inhabitants and destroying some of its fortifications.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While a large garrison was left at Black River upon the abandonment of the <a href="/wiki/San_Juan_Expedition_(1780)" title="San Juan Expedition (1780)">San Juan expedition</a>, it was reduced in late 1781. </p><p>In March 1782, more than 1,300 Spanish troops led by <a href="/wiki/Mat%C3%ADas_de_G%C3%A1lvez" class="mw-redirect" title="Matías de Gálvez">Matías de Gálvez</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Captaincy_General_of_Guatemala" title="Captaincy General of Guatemala">Captain General of Spanish Guatemala</a> arrived, overwhelming the British garrison that then numbered just 21 men. Lawrie resisted as best he could, but the arrival of even more Spanish troops, he abandoned the fortifications and fled with his men through the jungle to <a href="/wiki/Cape_Gracias_a_Dios" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Gracias a Dios">Cape Gracias a Dios</a>. He was eventually able to regroup a force of about 800 locals. Combined with a supporting force from <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica" title="Colony of Jamaica">Jamaica</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Marcus_Despard" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Marcus Despard">Edward Marcus Despard</a>, he returned to Black River, where the Spanish garrison had been significantly reduced by disease. Lawrie and Despard <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Black_River" title="Battle of the Black River">regained control of Black River</a>, taking more than 700 Spanish prisoners.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End_of_British_control">End of British control</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: End of British control"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)" title="Treaty of Paris (1783)">1783 Treaty of Paris</a> that ended the war confirmed Spanish sovereignty over <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">Belize</a>, but again contained ambiguous language concerning the <a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Mosquito Shore</a>. This revived the old arguments that the settlements were not part of the "Spanish Continent" that the treaty referred to, and the British moved in 1785 to begin fortifying the area again. A strong show of force by the British moved the Spanish to request negotiations on the issue. In the <a href="/wiki/Convention_of_London_(1786)" title="Convention of London (1786)">Convention of London</a>, signed 14 July 1786, Britain agreed to evacuate the "<a href="/wiki/Mosquito_Coast" title="Mosquito Coast">Country of the Mosquitos</a>" in exchange for an expansion of rights in Belize.<sup id="cite_ref-D703_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D703-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>James Lawrie supervised the evacuation of the shore. A total of 2,650 people were evacuated from the shore. Most of whom went to <a href="/wiki/British_Honduras" title="British Honduras">Belize</a>, but others went to <a href="/wiki/Colony_of_Jamaica" title="Colony of Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/wiki/Grand_Cayman" title="Grand Cayman">Grand Cayman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Roat%C3%A1n" title="Roatán">Roatán</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-D703_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D703-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Control of Black River was formally turned over to Spanish authorities on 29 August 1787 by his son (and grandson of founder William Pitt) William Pitt Lawrie. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Spanish_settlement">Spanish settlement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Spanish settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Spanish acquired a settlement with a main road about a mile in length, with plantations extending 15 miles (24 km) along the waterways in the area, and two sugar mills.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They brought in settlers from the <a href="/wiki/Canary_Islands" title="Canary Islands">Canary Islands</a> to take over the settlement, but it was an economic failure. Spanish attempts to run the settlement on a purely legitimate basis (without the illicit trade that flourished under the British) were not successful, and their trade with the natives was hampered by not providing goods useful to the natives for trade or other purposes, and by ongoing British smuggling. </p><p>The settlement came to a final end when a band of Miskito warriors descended on the town on the morning of 4 September 1800, and slaughtered many of its inhabitants. Those that survived fled overland to <a href="/wiki/Trujillo,_Honduras" title="Trujillo, Honduras">Trujillo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-D706_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D706-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the village of Palacios, which now extends along the edges of the lagoon with an <a href="/wiki/Palacios_Airport" title="Palacios Airport">airport</a>, remnants of the colony are still to be seen. Cannons of the era are there, as are the remains of the sugar mills. An overgrown cemetery contains the resting place of the settlement's founder, William Pitt.<sup id="cite_ref-D706_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D706-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gregor_MacGregor#Poyais_scheme" title="Gregor MacGregor">Gregor MacGregor#Poyais scheme</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="flag" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/32px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png" decoding="async" width="32" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/48px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Flag_of_Honduras.svg/64px-Flag_of_Honduras.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Honduras" title="Portal:Honduras">Honduras portal</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Black_River_(settlement)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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<a href="#cite_ref-D684_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-D684_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 684</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 679</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 680</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 682</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 683</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 686</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 688</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 689</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 691</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 693</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 695</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 697</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 699</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 700</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 701</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-D703-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-D703_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-D703_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 703</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 704</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-D706-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-D706_19-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-D706_19-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Dawson, p. 706</span> </li> </ol></div> <div 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