Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

by Caroline Elkins

Britain had declared martial law in Ireland (1798 and 1803), Barbados (1805 and 1816), Ceylon (1817 and 1848), Demerara (1823), Jamaica (1823–24 and 1831–32), Cape Colony (1835, 1846, 1850–53), and Canada (1837–38).[51]