ABSTRACT
In the Peace of Versailles, which left her more firmly entrenched than ever in Gibraltar, Great Britain made little provision for the future of her far-western Rock on the Honduras Gulf. Strangely enough, in view of her growing Imperial ambitions, she did not even question the Spanish claim to territorial possession and sovereignty in Belize. Governor Campbell of Jamaica, writing to Lord North in the following year, supported the Baymen’s protests. The frontiers laid down by the Treaty should most certainly be extended. The Convention of London marked a much more conciliatory approach on the part of Spanish diplomacy to the log-cutting question in British Honduras. In 1804 the French Admiral Villeneuve raced with the Spanish fleet to the West Indies, only to turn east again without striking a blow, until the Battle of Trafalgar set its seal for a hundred years on British supremacy at sea.
