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The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, [1] also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, [2] the Spanish Cession, [3] the Florida Purchase Treaty, [4] or the Florida Treaty, [5] [6] was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico ().
The Asiento did not concern French or British Caribbean, or Brazil, but only Spanish America. The 1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas divided the Atlantic Ocean and other parts of the globe into two zones of influence, Spanish and Portuguese. The Spanish acquired the west side, washing South America and the West Indies, whilst the Portuguese obtained ...
Spanish possession until the Spanish–American War. It remained under the control of the United States until May 1902, when it became independent. Diplomatic relationships were established, but no formal treaty was signed. [1] 1904 May 10 [1] [notes 6] Panama: King Alfonso XIII of Spain President of Cabinet Council Antonio Maura
Elsewhere it is usually viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession. In France, it was known as the Second Intercolonial War. [2] The war was primarily a conflict between French, Spanish and English colonists for control of the North American continent while the War of the Spanish Succession was being fought in Europe.
The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the death of Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg monarch, who died childless in 1700. The War of the Spanish Succession was fought between proponents of a Bourbon prince, Philip of Anjou, and the Austrian Habsburg claimant, Archduke Charles.
It established naval superiority over its competitors, acquired the strategic Mediterranean ports of Gibraltar and Menorca and trading rights in Spanish America. France accepted the Protestant succession, ensuring a smooth inheritance by George I in August 1714, while agreeing to end support for the Stuarts in the 1716 Anglo-French Treaty. [119]
In South America, Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín led colonists to victory against Spanish rule; in Mexico, José María Morelos led the movement. By 1825, the Spanish Empire had lost control of all of its Latin American possessions with the exception of Puerto Rico and Cuba. And, pro-independence sentiments were growing in both ...
"British Diplomacy in the Light of Anglo-Spanish New World Issues, 1750-1757". The American Historical Review. 51 (4): 627– 648. doi:10.2307/1843901. JSTOR 1843901. HMSO (1750). A Treaty concluded and signed at Madrid, on the 5th of October N. S. 1750, between the ministers plenipotentiaries of their Britannick and Catholick Majesties. Edward ...