CSPAN3 Lectures In History October 12, 2014
Was a 30 year contract. There was some specific numbers on that. So the bottom line was there was tension between 10 and spain, and there was one incident in particular that later gave this conflict its name. And you will think, that is an odd day. The war of jenkins ear, where did that come from . The rebecca was one of the ships that had been seized by the spanish, a british merchant ship, and the captive of the captain of that ship was robert jenkins, and in the process of being or day, his ear was cut off. Jenkins took it upon himself to carry the ear around, he would put in a jar, may be ...