Violent Encounters: Franco-Spanish Aggression in the Early Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

By Cindy Ermus The following is largely an excerpt from Chapter 5 of my new book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World (Cambridge University Press, February 2023). which explores how the Plague of Provence (1720-22) unfolded in the European overseas colonies, paying special attention to the port […]

Violent Encounters: Franco-Spanish Aggression in the Early Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

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