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Spanish cities and towns in Jamaica [ edit ] The reminders of this historical period are the names of places all over the island, Such as Ocho Rios , Rio Bueno , Santa Cruz , Rio Cobre , Port Antonio and most importantly Spanish Town, formerly known as St. Jago de la Vega, the capital under the Spanish.
After the Spanish repelled this poorly executed attack, the English force then sailed for Jamaica, the only Spanish West Indies island that did not have new defensive works. In May 1655, around 7,000 English soldiers landed near Jamaica's capital, named Spanish Town and soon overwhelmed the small number of Spanish troops (at the time, Jamaica's ...
The Taino referred to the island as "Xaymaca," but the Spanish gradually changed the name to "Jamaica." [12] In the so-called Admiral's map of 1507, the island was labeled as "Jamaiqua"; and in Peter Martyr's first tract from the Decades of the New World (published 1511—1521), he refers to it as both "Jamaica" and "Jamica."
Spanish Jamaica had been a colony of Spain for over a hundred years. In May 1655, around 7,000 English soldiers landed near Jamaica's Spanish Town capital. The English invasion force soon overwhelmed the small number of Spanish troops (at the time, Jamaica's entire population only numbered around 2,500). [8]
Real Academia de la Historia (in Spanish). Cundall, Frank; Pietersz, Joseph Luckert. (1919). Jamaica under the Spaniards, abstracted from the archives of Seville. Kingston: Jamaica, Institute of Jamaica. Edwards, Bryan (1794). An Abridgment of Mr. Edwards's Civil and Commercial History of the British West Indies: In Two Volumes. J.
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.
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Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. The town is home to numerous memorials, the national archives , and one of the oldest Anglican churches outside England (the others are in Virginia ...