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Leiden University Collection “Maps and Atlases”

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:23 +0000

Leiden University Maps and Atlases Collection, a repository of over 100,000 maps collected and held by the Leiden University Library since its creation in 1587

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British Library Digital Collections

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:17 +0000

British Library’s digital repository of historic maps, plans and views (over 4.5 million volumes)

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Cambridge University Digital Library “Maps” Collection

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:34:17 +0000

Digital repository of historical maps from the Cambridge University Digital Library’s “Maps” collection.

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Aranda to Wall

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:40 +0000

This is a text written by Aranda describing Spain’s diplomatic situation vis-à-vis England and France. This duality of powers in Spain’s position is indicative of the polarisation that had taken place in Europe with the hegemony of the two powers. Spain, which enjoyed a period of peace under Ferdinand VI, had politicians in its ranks who were in favour of establishing alliance blocs around an English or French ecosystem. However, historiography has interpreted these blocs as Anglophile or Francophile, as if Spanish politicians had an interest in promoting the rise of these powers against their monarchy. It seems that this had nothing to do with what had been believed, as Diego Tellez Alarcia says, and that this was a view that historiography uncritically took from the publicity writings against the politicians of the monarchy, with the aim of discrediting them in the public eye. Each of these politicians of the stature of Aranda, Ricardo Wall and Carvajal had in mind to establish a bloc of equilibrium according to one power or another, which they considered to be decisive in terms of its power. But they had not forgotten that, in the political game, both monarchies, the English and the French, were historical enemies of the Spanish.

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History of Gibraltar

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:35 +0000

The Rock of Gibraltar was occupied by an Anglo-Dutch fleet in the midst of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704. Attempts to recapture the rock proved unsuccessful, such as the one carried out the same year. Once Philip V had consolidated his position on the throne, he questioned military experts about an attempt to reclaim the rock. However, as Armando Alberola Roma says, most of the experts’ opinions did not agree with the idea of besieging the rock because of its good geographical location and the superiority of the English fleet. The monarch decided to disregard this advice and rely on those who were in favour of carrying out this enterprise, and the siege took place in 1727. In fact, the siege was a failure, and in part the imprudence in organising the logistics for such an undertaking must have played a major role.

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File at the request of the ambassador of England, concerning the non-requirement of English traders resident in Alicante to pay brokerage fees

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:33:23 +0000

File at the request of the ambassador of England, relating to not requiring English traders resident in Alicante to pay broker’s duty on transactions carried out and refunding them the amount charged for this duty

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