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  2. Battle of Ocho Rios - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Ocho Rios also known as Battle of Las Chorreras was a military action which took place on the island of Jamaica on 30 October 1657 where a Spanish force under Cristóbal Arnaldo Isasi hoping to take back the island was defeated by the English occupying force under the Governor Edward D'Oyley. [1]

  3. Henry Morgan - Wikipedia

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    Sir Henry Morgan (Welsh: Harri Morgan; c. 1635 – 25 August 1688) was a Welsh [1] privateer, plantation owner, and, later, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica.From his base in Port Royal, Jamaica, he and those under his command raided settlements and shipping ports on the Spanish Main, becoming wealthy as they did so.

  4. Invasion of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The Invasion of Jamaica took place in May 1655, during the 1654 to 1660 Anglo-Spanish War, when an English expeditionary force captured Spanish Jamaica. It was part of an ambitious plan by Oliver Cromwell to acquire new colonies in the Americas, known as the Western Design .

  5. Henry Morgan's Panama expedition - Wikipedia

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    Henry Morgan's Panama expedition, also known as The Sack of Panama was a military expedition in which English privateers and French pirates commanded by Buccaneer Henry Morgan launched an attack with an army of 1,400 men with the purpose of capturing the rich Spanish city of Panama off the Pacific coast between 16 December 1670 and 5 March 1671 during the later stage of the Anglo-Spanish War.

  6. Henry Morgan's raid on Porto Bello - Wikipedia

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    Morgan however managed to ambush and repel Bracamonte's Spanish counter attack forcing him to deliver the ransom. Having achieved this, Morgan and the Privateers left Porto Bello intact as promised and went back to Jamaica unhindered. The attack was highly successful and garnered some 100,000 pieces of eight as well as other valuable booty.

  7. History of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The loan required the Jamaican government to institute a pay freeze amounting to a 20% real-terms cut in wages. Jamaica is one of the most indebted countries and spends around half of its annual federal budget on debt repayments. [152] The 2010s look to be a bad time for Jamaica's sugarcane industry.

  8. Colony of Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    The Crown Colony of Jamaica and Dependencies was a British colony from 1655, when it was captured by the English Protectorate from the Spanish Empire. Jamaica became a British colony from 1707 and a Crown colony in 1866. The Colony was primarily used for sugarcane production, and experienced many slave rebellions over the course of British rule ...

  9. Henry Morgan's raid on Puerto del Príncipe - Wikipedia

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    Morgan's men in the crescent formation soon found its way around the Spanish and managed to cut most of them off. [12] The remnants attempted to escape into the nearby forest but they and their native allies lost most of their force, some 700 were either killed, wounded or captured. Morgan's men suffered less than twenty casualties. [11]