2023-10-09 04:03:39
In 1741, King George II personally chose George Anson and Edward Vernon, his two most respected sailors, to definitively liquidate Spain’s monopoly in America, with a great simultaneous attack in the Pacific and the Caribbean, which ended up converting that year in the most disastrous for England in the entire 18th century
‘The Capture of Puerto Bello’, a work by George Chambers in the 19th century
09/10/2023
Updated at 05:03h.
In 1741, Great Britain was elated, convinced that the time had come to take a stab at the Spanish Empire after two and a half centuries of incontestable world domination. To “singe the beard of the King of Spain”, as the feared man had said two hundred years before…
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