The General was an official in the
Miskito Kingdom
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. The position appears to have been created in the early eighteenth century and was under the control of the
Zambo
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segment of the kingdom. The General ruled the northern region from the
Wanks River to nearly
Trujillo.
List of Generals
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Peter (1722–1729)
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Charles Hobby (1729-c 1740)
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Handyside (c 1740–1764)
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Tempest (1764-c 1785)
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Thomas Lee (1785–1790)
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Perkin Tempest (1796–1797)
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Edward Trelawney (1790-1790)
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Jaspar Hall (1790–1797)
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Lowry Robinson (1800-?)
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Barras (1820)
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Thomas Lowry Robinson (c 1830-c 1847)
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Mettison (1847)
[Michael Olien, "General, Governor and Admiral: Three Miskito Lines of Succession," ''Ethnohistory'' 45/2 (1998): 286, figure 2.]
References
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