1731-British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear is cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, catalyst for a later war between Britain and Spain 1768-John Hancock refuses to allow two British ...

Of course Russia started its war with Ukraine. ... Sometimes figuring out who started a war is complicated. But this isn’t World War I or the War of Jenkins’ Ear.

*The War of Jenkins’ Ear, a name popularly applied to the war between England and Spain, 1739-43. The incident that contributed to its outbreak: Captain Robert Jenkins’ English brig Rebecca ...

The War of Jenkins’ Ear pitted Britain against Spain from 1739 to 1748, leaving three particularly noteworthy episodes in its wake. One was the incident that sparked it, leading the British to name it ...

In 1739 war was declared against Spain. “The War of Jenkins Ear” turned out badly for Britain. The fighting petered out in 1742, as the conflict became subsumed in the War of the Austrian Succession ...

When a bullet wounded Donald Trump’s ear at a recent rally, the former President joined a long list of historical and literary precedents, from Evander Holyfield to Hamlet’s father.

Historians now call that war, which helped turbocharge the growth of the British empire, the War of Jenkins’ Ear. Twenty twenty-four is a long way from 1731, and news today ricochets around the ...

JENKINS' EAR (474 pp.)—Odell and Willard Shepard—Macmillan ($3.50). The opening proposition of this historical novel is one to make fans snuggle comfortably into their armchairs: a ...

The ship, which was on patrol as part of the War of Jenkins’ Ear between Britain and Spain, is 130 feet in length and represented 704 tons of patrol power, with 50 cannons scattered across three ...

The Fourth-Rate, 50-gun frigate sunk in 1742 after it ran aground on the reefs of the Dry Tortugas while on patrol in the War of Jenkins Ear between Britain and Spain.

Just under a century after the vessel was launched, it sunk in 1742 after running aground on the reefs of the Dry Tortugas while she was on patrol in the War of Jenkins Ear between Britain and ...