The Miskitu, Military Labour, and the San Juan Expedition of 1780
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew P Dziennik (0000-0002-5267-2314, United States Naval Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 155-179 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x16000625 |
| OpenAlex | W2622479353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 80 |
This article examines the contributions of the Miskitu people of colonial Nicaragua and Honduras to Britain's largest military intervention in interior Central America – the invasion of Spanish Nicaragua in 1780. Lacking the local skills and knowledge essential to offensive operations in the region, the expedition relied on an existing alliance with the Miskitu. Charting the evolution of this alliance, this article reveals not only the importance of indigenous manpower to colonial endeavours but also how intercultural campaigns generated powerful assumptions about martial skills and racial categorizations. These assumptions were highly vulnerable to misunderstandings that, in turn, had a profound effect on supposedly rigid European concepts of national policy, military planning, and strategic interests. The failure of British officials to appreciate the needs of their allies ended hopes of defeating the Spanish empire. But the failure also shaped understandings of the Miskitu and broader British interests in Central America. The raising of military labour was much more than the process of hiring soldiers. It was a broader process of negotiation, understanding, and misunderstanding that helped define the expansion of European empires in the new world
Alliance · Colonialism · Empire · Indigenous · Intervention (counseling · Negotiation · Offensive · Operations research · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean · Engineering · Historical Studies in Central America · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Psychology
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Chief Robert Henry Clarence
The Founding and Fracturing of the Mosquito Confederation
A Miskitu Critique of British Trade Practices
Indios, Sambos, Mestizos, and the Social Construction of Racial Identity in Colonial Central America
Resistance and Contradiction
Fighting for a Living
The First Way of War
Mahogany
Invisible Warriors
Betrayals
Ordeal of the Longhouse
Die vielköpfige Hydra
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
The Middle Ground
The Middle Ground
Understanding Native American Alliances
The Embattled Northeast
The History of Jamaica
Blacks and Blackness in Central America
Tangweera
State, Class, and Ethnicity in Nicaragua
Gathering Together
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Mosquito Empires
Class, culture, and the Miskito Indians
The Black Legend in England
Savages” in the Service of Empire
Impartiality in Robertson's History of America
The image of imperial Spain in British political thought, 1750–1800∗
Miskitu Labor and English Royalization at Augusta, Roatán Island, Honduras
The Black Legend in England
Turning South before Swinging East
Puritan Bioprospecting in Central America and the West Indies
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The First Way of War
The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England
Why Should You Be So Furious
The Search for a Usable Indian
Subjects Unto the Same King
Peace and War on the Anglo-Cherokee Frontier, 1756–63
Controlling the Company
Savages within the Empire
Slaves in Red Coats
Living Between Empires
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
Creating Mosquitia
Masters of Empire
Mapping Amerindian Captivity in Colonial Mosquitia
Empire, Trade and Popular Politics in Mid-Hanoverian Britain
The Embattled Northeast
Slaves in Red Coats
Inca, Sailor, Soldier, King
Into the American Woods
Pacific Empires
The Native Ground
Kingship among the Miskito
William Pitt's Settlement at Black River on the Mosquito Shore
The Rise and Fall of Indian-White Alliances
Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
Nicaragua's Mosquito Shore
British Logwood Extraction from the Mosquitia
The Anglo-Spanish Struggle for Mosquitia
Creassy's Plan for seizing Panama, with an Introductory Account of British Designs on Panama
Betrayals
The Sambo and Tawira Miskitu
The Native Ground
An Infinity of Nations
Of Kings and Contexts
The Miskito Kings and the Line of Succession
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |