Coast of Mosquitos

The Côte of Mosquitos was starting from 1661 the seat of an indigenous, known kingdom sometimes under the name of " kingdom of Mosquitie". This one was placed since 1668 (or 1678) under the protectorate of the England, which was exerted however only in a relatively abstract and intermittent way until the middle of the 19th century.

In 1848, Mosquitos seized the Nicaraguan city of San Juan del Norte (Greytown) with the assistance of the English, which failed to involve the intervention of the the United States: the crisis led to the signature of the Traité Clayton-Bulwer, in 1850. England having finally given up its rights on the area by the Treated of Managua, signed in 1860, the last king of Mosquitos, George Augustus Frederick, had to give up its title the following year to adopt that of " héréditaire" chief;. The old kingdom preserved nevertheless a certain autonomy until in 1894, date on which it was definitively incorporated in the Nicaragua.

The capital of the kingdom was Bluefields, but the last three kings of Mosquitos were crowned with Belize, with the British Honduras, between 1816 and 1845.

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