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After every attack the settlers put out the fires, buried the dead, and rebuilt San Germán.
In 1670 the Spanish officially ceded Jamaica to British rule as part of the Treaty of Madrid, and the British began a systematic process of settlement, offering land and aid to prospective settlers.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Boer War (the struggle between British and Dutch settlers in South Africa) sent shock waves as far as Bermuda.
Railroads preceded settlers into many parts of the United States, and every few miles a siding had to be built so that trains could pull off the track and wait for others to pass.
First, the settlement in the west took place some forty years after that in the east, and the settlers had a better idea of what they were handling.