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asiento
(Spanish: contract) was the concession made by Spain to Britain at Utrecht in 1713 of the right to supply negro slaves to the Spanish empire. Intended to last for 30 years, the trade was never as ...
barrier treaties
After their experience in 1672, when they were almost overrun by the French, the Dutch sought guarantees against renewed aggression. Their proposal was to garrison certain fortresses in the southern ...
Frisians
A Germanic seafaring people. In Roman times they occupied northern Holland and north-west Germany. Apart from records of their revolts against Rome between 12 bc and 69 ad, little is known about ...
George I
Elector of Hanover and king of Great Britain and Ireland, b. 28 May 1660, s. of Ernst August (later elector of Hanover), and Sophia, da. of Frederick, Elector Palatine; acc. 1 Aug. 1714; m. Sophia ...
Giulio Alberoni
(1664–1752)Italian cardinal and statesman. In 1713 he arranged the marriage of the Duke of Parma's niece Elizabeth Farnese with Philip V of Spain. He became effective ruler of Spain in 1715 and ...
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
(1762–1834).Bathurst's grandfather was one of the twelve Tory peers created in 1712 to carry the treaty of Utrecht and in 1772, aged 88, had been promoted earl; his father was lord chancellor 1771–8 ...
Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke
(1678–1751)English politician. He entered Parliament as a Tory in 1701, became Secretary of State following the Tory triumph of 1710, and was responsible for negotiating the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. ...
Latin America, relations with
English activities in Latin America began in 1562–8 when Sir John Hawkins carried three cargoes of slaves from Africa to Spanish possessions in the New World. The third of these ...
Minorca
Is a Balearic island of strategic importance, with Port Mahon a fine harbour. It was taken by the British in 1708. At the outbreak of the Seven Years War in 1756, Admiral Byng's failure to prevent ...
New France
French possessions in North America discovered, explored, and settled from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Its centres were Quebec (founded in 1608) and Montreal (founded in 1642) on the St Lawrence ...
Philip V
(1683–1746)King of Spain (1700–46). He was Philip of Anjou, the younger grandson of Louis XIV, and succeeded under the terms of the will of the last Habsburg king, Charles II. It was Louis XIV's ...
Port-Royal
A town in southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It was the first French colony in North America and is Canada's oldest European settlement. Destroyed by the British in 1613, it was ...
Queen Anne's War
(1702–13)A war between Britain and France, part of the War of the Spanish Succession, that was fought in North America. Frontier warfare in New England with savage French and Native American attacks ...
Robert Harley
(1661–1724),Tory statesman and bibliophile. He frequented the Scriblerus Club, and acquired a great library of books and manuscripts, which his son inherited. See Harleian Mss.
Spanish Netherlands
The southern provinces of the Netherlands ceded to Philip II of Spain in the Union of Arras (1579), during the Dutch Revolts. These lands originally included modern Belgium, Luxembourg, part of ...
St Christopher and Nevis
Are part of the Leeward Islands in the eastern Caribbean and form an independent republic within the Commonwealth. The islands were visited by Columbus and for some time disputed between Spain, ...
Utrecht
Capital of the prince-bishopric of Utrecht. A Roman castellum, Traiectum, is mentioned in the middle of the 1st century ad, and Utrecht was continuously occupied during the early MA, when ...
Utrecht, Peace of (1713–14) Quick reference
World Encyclopedia
Series of treaties that ended the War of the Spanish Succession. It confirmed the Bourbon King Philip V on
Utrecht, Treaty of Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
This is the general name given to a series of important treaties which concluded the war of the Spanish succession,
Utrecht, Peace of Quick reference
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
a series of treaties (1713–14) ending the War of the Spanish Succession. The disputed throne of Spain was given to the French Philip V, but the union of the French and Spanish thrones was ...
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