War of Jenkins' Ear

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18th-century conflict military conflict between Britain and Spain war

The War of Jenkins' Ear was an 18th-century conflict between Britain and Spain, largely fought in the Caribbean and North America, that became an early theater of the wider War of the Austrian Succession.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	18th-century conflict → military conflict between Britain and Spain → war →
alsoKnownAs	Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins → Guerra del Asiento →
chronologicalPredecessor	Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) →
chronologicalSuccessor	Seven Years' War →
conflictBelligerent	Kingdom of Great Britain → Kingdom of Spain →
countryInvolved	Great Britain → Spain →
endTime	1748 →
hasCause	Anglo-Spanish commercial rivalry → Spanish search-and-seizure of British merchant ships → border disputes between British Georgia and Spanish Florida → disputes over Caribbean trade →
hasPart	Battle of Bloody Marsh → Battle of Cartagena de Indias → Battle of Fort Frederica → Battle of Fort Mose (1740) → Battle of Gully Hole Creek → Battle of Havana (1748) → Battle of Jenkins' Ear (incident) → Battle of La Guaira → Battle of Porto Bello (1739) → Battle of Puerto Cabello → Siege of St. Augustine (1740) →
involves	British privateers → Royal Navy → Spanish Navy → Spanish guarda costas →
location	Atlantic Ocean → Caribbean Sea → Florida (Spanish colony) → Georgia (British colony) → Gulf of Mexico → New Granada → North America →
mainTheater	Caribbean theater of the War of the Austrian Succession →
namedAfter	Robert Jenkins →
parliamentaryDebate	British Parliament declaration of war on Spain in 1739 →
partOf	War of the Austrian Succession →
result	stalemate → status quo ante bellum →
significantCommander	Blas de Lezo → Edward Vernon → James Oglethorpe → Manuel de Montiano → Sebastián de Eslava →
startTime	1739 →
treaty	Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bourbon Spain → Edward Vernon ("War of Jenkins’ Ear") → George II of Great Britain → Spanish Navy ("War of Jenkins’ Ear") →	participatedIn
HMS Namur ("War of Jenkins’ Ear") → Sir George Pocock →	conflict
War of Jenkins' Ear ("Guerra de la Oreja de Jenkins") →	alsoKnownAs
War of Jenkins' Ear ("Caribbean theater of the War of the Austrian Succession") →	mainTheater
James Oglethorpe →	militaryConflict
Edward Vernon ("War of Jenkins’ Ear") →	notableEvent
Edward Boscawen →	participantIn