Anglo-Spanish War

Examples of Anglo-Spanish War in the following topics:

• Philip II and the Spanish Armada

  • This conflict consumed much Spanish expenditure during the later 16th century.
  • Philip's commitment to restore Catholicism in the Protestant regions of Europe resulted also in the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).
  • The war was punctuated by widely separated battles.
  • He directly intervened in the final phases of the wars (1589–1598). 
  • Spanish forces and subsidies were withdrawn.

• Events of the War

  • The Anglo-Prussian alliance was joined by smaller German states (especially Hanover, which remained in a personal union with Britain).
  • Eventually the Anglo-Portuguese army chased the greatly reduced Franco-Spanish army back to Spain, recovering almost all the lost towns.
  • In the Fantastic War (1762-63) in South America, Spanish forces conquered the Portuguese territories of Colonia do Sacramento and Rio Grande de São Pedro and forced the Portuguese to surrender and retreat.
  • Peter” (the present day Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul) would be retaken from the Spanish army during the undeclared Hispano-Portuguese war of 1763–1777.
  • They lost Minorca in the Mediterranean to the French in 1756 but captured, additionally to territories in Africa and North America, the French sugar colonies of Guadeloupe in 1759 and Martinique in 1762 as well as the Spanish cities of Havana in Cuba and Manila in the Philippines, both prominent Spanish colonial cities.

• Empires in Conflict

  • The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674) were a series of conflicts fought largely at sea over Britain's power to restrict trade to the colonies.
  • The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) began over Britain's supplying slaves and goods to the Spanish colonies in North America .
  • King William's War (1689–97), also known as the Nine Years War and the War of the League of Augsburg, was a phase of the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent, and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
  • This painting by Pieter Cornelisz van Soest (c. 1667) depicts a major battle (and Dutch victory) during the Second Anglo–Dutch War.

• European Wars in the Colonies

  • The Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652–1674) were a series of conflicts fought largely at sea over Britain's power to restrict trade to the colonies.
  • The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748) began over Britain's supplying slaves and goods to the Spanish colonies in North America.
  • The war gained its colorful name from a Spanish threat against British captain Robert Jenkins, whose ear was severed when his ship was boarded; he was told to show his ear to Parliament and tell the king that the Spanish would do the same to him.
  • King William's War (1689–1697), also known as the "Nine Years War" and the "War of the League of Augsburg," was a phase in the larger Anglo-French conflict for colonial domination throughout the world.
  • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.

• The Question of Spanish Succession

  • The question of Spanish succession at the turn of the 18th century was linked directly to the question of balance on powers in Europe and led to a major European war that ended the European hegemony of France.
  • The Dutch, Austrians, and German states fought on to strengthen their own negotiating position, but defeated by Marshal Villars they were soon compelled to accept Anglo-French mediation.
  • The War of the Spanish Succession brought to an end a long period of major conflict in Western Europe.
  • Europe before the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, (c. 1700), source: Wikipedia.
  • Europe after the War of the Spanish Succession (1714), source: Wikipedia.

• William of Orange and the Grand Alliance

  • Yet to William III France's growing strength made war inevitable.
  • However, before the War of the Spanish Succession was even declared, William died.
  • The Austrians, the Dutch and English allies formally declared war in May 1702.
  • The Dutch, Austrians, and German states fought on to strengthen their own negotiating position, but defeated by Marshal Villars they were soon compelled to accept Anglo-French mediation.
  • Explain William's stake in the War of the Spanish Succession and the goals of the Grand Alliance.

• Troubled Neighbors

  • The Anglo-Dutch Wars, which took place between 1652 and 1784, were fought for control over trade routes in the colonies.
  • The Anglo–Dutch Wars, also known as the Dutch Trade Wars, were fought in the 17th and 18th centuries for control over the seas and trade routes.
  • The second and third Anglo-Dutch wars confirmed the Dutch Republic's position as the leading maritime state of the 17th century.
  • After the Third Anglo-Dutch War ended and the two sides made peace, they agreed to return it to the English.
  • Georgia was first established as a "buffer" colony to protect the other colonies from attacks from the Spanish in Florida and the French in Louisiana.

• Louis XIV's Wars

  • Three major wars, the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, and the War of the Spanish Succession, as well as two lesser conflicts, the War of Devolution and the War of the Reunions, enabled France to become the most powerful state in Europe.
  • In 1665, Louis believed that he had a pretext to go to war with Spain and allow him to claim the Spanish Netherlands (present-day Belgium).
  • The Nine Years' War (1688–97), often called the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg, once again pitted Louis XIV against a European-wide coalition, the Grand Alliance, led by the Anglo-Dutch King William III, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, King Charles II of Spain, Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, and several princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • However, with the ailing and childless Charles II of Spain approaching his end, a new conflict over the inheritance of the Spanish Empire would soon embroil Louis XIV and the Grand Alliance in a final war – the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • During Louis's reign, France was the leading European power and it fought three major wars: the Franco-Dutch War, the War of the League of Augsburg, and the War of the Spanish Succession.

• The Spanish-American War

  • The Spanish-American War was a three-month-long conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States.
  • The Spanish-American War was swift and decisive.
  • Since the Spanish-American War, the United States has had a significant hand in various conflicts around the world, and has entered many treaties and agreements.
  • The war also effectively ended the Spanish Empire.

• Land Policy

  • The Republic of Texas sought U.S. annexation, despite Mexico's threat to go to war with the United States.
  • Congress approved the annexation of Texas in 1845, and Texas became the 28th state, which resulted in war with Mexico until 1847.
  • Oregon Country, which broadly covered the area west of the Rockies to the Pacific, was jointly controlled by the United States and Britain following the Anglo-American Convention of 1818--until June 1846, when the Oregon Treaty divided the territory at the 49th parallel.
  • Spain ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines in 1898 after the Spanish-American War.
  • On July 25, 1898, during the Spanish–American War, the United States invaded Puerto Rico and, in 1917, the Jones-Shafroth Act granted all the inhabitants of Puerto Rico U.S. citizenship.