Asiento de Negros
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The Asiento de Negros was a monopoly contract between the Spanish Crown and various merchants for the right to provide enslaved Africans to colonies in the Spanish Americas. The Spanish Empire rarely
The island of Cádiz by Blaeu in 1662.
San Juan de Ulúa, Spanish fort in Veracruz, Mexico (2008)
San Felipe, Spanish fort in Cartagena (Colombia).
Jan Valckenburgh
War of Jenkins' Ear
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The War of Jenkins' Ear was fought between Great Britain and Spain from 1739 to 1748. Most of the fighting took place in New Granada and the Caribbean Sea, with major operations over by 1742. It is co
Asiento de Negros
…government passed its rights to the South Sea Company. The British asiento ended with the 1750 Treaty of Madrid between Great Britain and Spain after the War of Jenkins' Ear, known appropriately by the Spanish as the Guerra del Asiento ("War of the Asiento"). An asiento, in the Spanish language, is a short-term loan or debt…
Ruins of the fortress of San Jeronimo, Portobelo
Spanish admiral Don Blas de Lezo 1741
Fortress of San Lorenzo el Real Chagres