The War of Jenkins' Ear : the forgotten struggle for North and South America, 1739-1742 /
Explores the causes and consequences of the 18th-century conflict across North and South America, with roots in a contract to supply African slaves to the rich colonies of the Spanish Empire, that laid the groundwork for the later French and Indian War and the American Revolution a generation later.
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
{2021].
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: At the Georgetown flea
- The incident
- Deep background
- The road to Jenkins' ear
- Admiral Vernon
- The redoubtable Oglethorpe
- Cartagena de Indias
- Disaster
- The invasion of Georgia
- Santiago, Panama & Ruatan
- Around the world
- Epilogue: The end of the story.