For political reasons, the Battle was belittled by people who wanted to downplay our British connections, even to the point of saying that the Battle never happened, or if it did, it was of no consequence to the country. King agreed that Belize should become am independent nation, but always disagreed with those who said the Battle was unimportant. In 1989 he began research in the Belize Archives in Belmopan and other sources at home and abroad. 1798-The Road To Glory. It was published in 1991, his longest book and most ignored by the Belize Establishment.
Strangers hail it as an important and delightful contribution to Belize.
I know considerably less about the people and events depicted in this book than I would like. Much of the information will never be known. The vital statistics of men and women in Belize during the period are almost non-existent. So I made up some of them. Fortunately, I am not a qualified historian and, therefore, not bound by the rigid restrictions of the professional.