This Day in Cuban History – January 4, 1762. Spain sided with France against the United Kingdom in the Seven Year’s War.

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Spain sided with France against the United Kingdom in the Seven Year’s War.  Britain declared war on Spain on January 4, 1762, and launched an Anglo-American expedition to capture Havana, the third largest city in the New World, and essential to Spanish transatlantic communications (and the supply of wealth from the Indies to Spain).  On …

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