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