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Newcastle is a settlement in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force . The Blue Mountain and John Crow Mountain National Park in which Newcastle is located was established in 1992.
The mortality rate of British soldiers in Jamaica was very high, particular as a result of yellow fever. A 156-acre (0.63 km 2) estate known as Up Park Pen was purchased by the War Department in 1784, to set up barracks. However, the mortality rate fell only when many were posted away to a hill station at Newcastle, high in the Blue Mountains.
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
John Ford Elkington was born on 3 February 1866 in Newcastle, Jamaica, which was then a British Army camp. He was the son of Irish-born British Army officer John Henry Ford Elkington (1830–1889), who rose to the rank of lieutenant-general and was later Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey. His mother was Scottish-born Margaret Elkington née ...
Built near a mangrove swamp, the garrison had a high death rate from tropical diseases. Some time around 1850 the garrison was moved to the isolated Newcastle, Jamaica, 12 miles northeast and 3500 feet higher. [8] On the south side of the harbor mouth on the Port Royal sand spit was Fort Charles (Jamaica) built soon after the English conquest ...
Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom; Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom; Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in New South Wales, Australia, named after Newcastle upon Tyne; Newcastle, New Castle or New Cassel may also refer to:
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Crown does not actually appear in Lloyd's Register until 1795. At that time her master is Stranach, her owner Lyall, and her trade London–Jamaica. [4] On 1 March 1796 Lloyd's List reported that Crown, Stranack, master, and Susannah, Skelton, master, both bound for the West Indies, had had to return to Portsmouth after they had run afoul of each other.