Cornelius Caroon was the Governor of
New Courland
The Curonian colonization of the Americas was performed by the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (now Latvia), which was the second-smallest European colonization of the Americas, state to colonise the Americas, after the Hospitaller colonization ...
, on
Tobago
Tobago, officially the Ward of Tobago, is an List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, island and Regions and municipalities of Trinidad and Tobago, ward within the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. It is located northeast of the larger islan ...
from 1643 to 1650.
In 1642, Captain Caroon arrived on the north coast of Tobago with 300
Couronian colonists. This was not Courland's first attempt to colonize Tobago, but all previous efforts had been cut short by the
Spanish
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.
In 1650, Caroon and the colonists abandoned New Courland and evacuated to
Tortuga, and later
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...
due to an outbreak of disease on Tobago that drastically reduced the number of men able to defend from the
Caribs.
[Nimblett, Lennie M. “The Courlanders Claim.” Tobago: the Union with Trinidad 1889- 1899: Myth and Reality, Authorhouse, 2012, pp. 311–311.
]
See also
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Couronian colonization of the Americas
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History of Tobago
The history of Tobago covers a period from the earliest human settlements on the island of Tobago in the Archaic period, through its current status as a part of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Originally settled by indigenous people, the isl ...
References
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European colonization of the Caribbean
History of Tobago