All the Seas of the World: The First Global Naval War, 1739?1748: Volume 2 – 1745?1748 by ALBERT C. E. PARKER

Description

In February 1744 the War of Jenkins’s Ear over British trading opportunities in Spanish America, hitherto confined at sea to Great Britain versus. Spain, blended into the existing (since December 1740) War of the Austrian Succession, over the disposition of Habsburg territories, with a French declaration of war on Great Britain. All the Seas of the World sheds new light on all aspects of the naval operations of the Spanish, British, and French navies in all theaters of the war which lasted from October 1739 to October 1748. Volume 1 covered naval battles and campaigns from 1739 to 1745 in the Bay of Biscay, the English Channel, Mediterranean, and the Pacific Ocean, and from 1739 to 1743 in the West Indies.

ISBN: 9781915113948
Author(s): ALBERT C. E. PARKER