Enlightenment · North America · War
1739
War of Jenkins' Ear
October 23, 1739
Britain declared war on Spain, nominally to avenge Captain Robert Jenkins, who had lost an ear to a Spanish coast-guard and carried it, pickled, to Parliament. The war went badly: Admiral Vernon took Porto Bello; Cartagena resisted. The conflict would eventually fold into the War of the Austrian Succession. The ear was probably counterfeit.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.