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The Anglo-Spanish War (Spanish: Guerra Anglo-Española) was a military conflict fought between Britain and Spain as part of the Seven Years' War.It lasted from January 1762 until February 1763, when the Treaty of Paris brought it to an end.
The siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, a part of the Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763), itself part of the Seven Years' War.
The Battle of Manila (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila ng mga Kastila at Ingles; Spanish: Batalla de Manila) was fought during the Seven Years' War, from 24 September 1762 to 6 October 1762, between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines, a Spanish colony at that time.
The French and Indian War (1754–1763), the Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763), and the Spanish–Portuguese War (1762–1763) were all parts of the Seven Years' War. The War of the Austrian Succession ended in 1748, but failed to resolve ongoing tensions between the European powers.
Britain first declared war against Spain on 4 January 1762, and on 18 January 1762, Spain declared war against Britain. [12] The British quickly captured Cuba and the Philippines in early 1762. Also, in early 1762, William Lyttelton, Jamaica's British governor and commander-in-chief, proposed a naval expedition to Nicaragua.
Anglo-Spanish War (1727–1729) War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748), later merged into the War of the Austrian Succession; Anglo-Spanish War (1762–1763), part of the Seven Years' War; Anglo-Spanish War (1779–1783), linked to the American Revolutionary War; Anglo-Spanish War (1796–1808), part of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
The Spanish invasion of Portugal (1762) between 5 May and 24 November, was a military episode in the wider Fantastic War in which Spain and France were defeated by the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance with broad popular resistance.
The action of 31 May 1762 was a minor naval engagement that took place off the Spanish coast off Cadiz, between a British Royal Naval frigate and a sloop against a Spanish frigate during the recently declared Anglo-Spanish War (1762–63). When the Spanish ship surrendered, it was found that she carried a large cargo of gold and silver that ...