You learn something every day: What, there were Puritan colonies in the tropics?

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 5:57 AM Share

As I said, I've been reading Paul Kennedy's Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery, in which I learned in an aside that the Puritans had tried to start a colony in Honduras. I didn't know that. In checking it out I also saw that some Puritans were the first Britishers to live in Belize, aside from maybe a few pirates and shipjumpers.  

Puritans in bikinis? It just don't seem right. 

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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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