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    Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes in Jamaica....
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  • A cockpit or flight deck is the area, on the front part of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft...
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  • up Cockpit or cockpit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cockpit is the flight deck of a fixed-wing aircraft. Cockpit may also refer to: The Cockpit (Leeds)...
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    Jamaica (redirect from Jamaica (country))
    "fertile" areas as "protected". Among the island's protected areas are the Cockpit Country, Hellshire Hills, and Litchfield forest reserves. In 1992, Jamaica's...
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  • slavery was abolished in 1838. The Windward Maroons and those from the Cockpit Country resisted conquest in the First Maroon War (c. 1728 to 1740), which...
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    crepuscular behavior under certain conditions. Found in Jamaica in the Cockpit Country, historically once prevalent throughout much of Jamaica, notably in...
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    the Blue Mountains and John Crow Mountains in eastern Jamaica, and Cockpit Country further to the west. The highest peak on Jamaica is Blue Mountain Peak...
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    the rugged terrain of the Cockpit Country, one of the world's most dramatic examples of karst topography. The Cockpit Country is pockmarked with steep-sided...
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    African slaves would frequently escape to Maroon territory, known as Cockpit Country. Over the first seventy-six years of British rule, skirmishes between...
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    of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica. It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and indigenous Taíno established a fortified...
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