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The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations largely ended by 1742. It was related to the 1740 to 1748 War of the Austrian Succession.
- Battle of Cartagena de Indias
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: Sitio de...
- Robert Jenkins (master mariner)
Robert Jenkins (fl. 1730s-40s) was a Welsh master mariner...
- Battle of Cartagena de Indias
War of Jenkins’ Ear, war between Great Britain and Spain that began in October 1739 and eventually merged into the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–48). It was precipitated by an incident that took place in 1738 when Captain Robert Jenkins appeared before a committee of the House of Commons and.
Jenkins’ ‘ear’ caught the country’s imagination and the power of this shrivelled object was immense and became a symbol of English pride. Robert Jenkins shows his severed ear to Prime Minister Robert Walpole.
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: Sitio de Cartagena de Indias, lit. 'Siege of Cartagena de Indias') took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain.
Robert Jenkins (fl. 1730s-40s) was a Welsh master mariner from Llanelli, famous as the protagonist of the "Jenkins's ear" incident, which became a contributory cause of the War of Jenkins' Ear between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in 1739.
the war was a tropical campaign, fought in the Caribbean at a date when medical resources and knowledge could provide only the flimsiest safeguards for health in those latitudes: and furthermore it was a combined operation.
14 Φεβ 2003 · One particular incident gave the confrontation its name: a Spanish privateer severed British captain Robert Jenkins’s ear in 1731 as punishment for raiding Spanish ships. Jenkins presented the ear to Parliament, and the outraged English public demanded retribution.
