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Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Company

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The Eastern Coast Company pursued its colony at "Abbottsville", which counted 80 colonists, after a shipload of February 1840. The whole area was descending into civil war, however, with Galindo and Morazán being killed. Abbottsville was in poor condition at the end of 1840, and was eventually
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took a favourable line on colonisation, the Eastern Coast Company produced brochures in 1836, and emigrants from London arrived by boat at Vera Paz that summer. A competing group, based on the investors in the failed Poyais grant, then intervened, having secured a further land grant from
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area, manipulated the Poyais revival; and the rivalry was expressed in a corporate raid on the Eastern Coast Company in October 1837. From this point onwards third parties were invoked:
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was brought in to head the Board of the company. He was an accountant, who worked on reform in government financial administration, and an
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was opposing expansion of British wood-cutting interests in the area. Bennett diverted Thomas Gould, who was looking to revive the
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was a failed British venture of the 1830s to exploit logging and promote colonisation in a region of what is now northern
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Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914: A Case Study in British Informal Empire
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Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914: A Case Study in British Informal Empire
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Penny Ante Imperialism: The Mosquito Shore and the Bay of Honduras, 1600–1914: A Case Study in British Informal Empire
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deserted. Abbott absconded to Brussels in 1841, owing large sums, and was declared bankrupt.
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Empires in the Wilderness: Foreign Colonization and Development in Guatemala, 1834–1844
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under the recent bankruptcy legislation. In that year Bennett died.
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Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Company
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Index

Guatemala
Marshall Bennett
mahogany
Belize
Juan Galindo
Poyais
Honduras
Vera Paz
Rio Dulce
Mariano Gálvez
Robert Charles Frederic
Black River
Francisco Morazán
Federal Republic of Central America
Colonial Office
Peter Harriss Abbott
official assignee
ISBN
978-0-8386-3323-6
ISBN
978-0-8386-3323-6


Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/58715
UK public library membership


ISBN

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