Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a Forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and the entire Western Hemisphere.
In this definitive work of history--the only single comprehensive volume on the subject-- T he War of Jenkins\' Ear explores the war that established the future of two entire continents..
Yet even though it happened decades before American independence, The War of Jenkins\' Ear reveals that this was truly an American war; a hard-fought, costly Struggle that determined the fate of the Americas, and in which, for the first time, American armies participated.
We travel around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Pacific to the Philippines and the Cantonese coast, with stops in Cartagena, Panama, and beyond.
With vivid prose, Robert Gaudi takes the reader from the brackish waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the rocky shores of Tierra del Fuego.
It would cost fifty-thousand lives, millions in treasure, and over six hundred ships.
Yet it resulted in the invasion of Georgia and even involved members of George Washington\'s own family.
Yet the conflict that would eventually become known as the War of Jenkins\' Ear--a moniker coined by the 19th century historian Thomas Carlyle more than a century later--is barely known to us today.
The War of Jenkins\' Ear was a world war in the truest sense, engaging the major European powers on battlefields ranging from Europe to the Americas to the Asian subcontinent.
This war would lay the groundwork for the French and Indian War and, eventually, the War of the American Revolution.
Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession (sometimes known as Queen Anne\'s War in the Americas), culminating in the War of Jenkins\' Ear.
In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas.
Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a Forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and the entire Western Hemisphere
