English: 1853 print commemorating Great Britain's annexation of the Bay Islands (off Honduras) in March 1852. The caption of the engraving reads: "Proclamation of the Colony of Bay Islands".
The British Crown relinquished the Bay Islands as well as the Mosquito Coast to Honduras and Nicaragua by a convention signed in 1859.
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