Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . We took Havana, in the WestIndies ; Manila, in the Philippine Isles; Belleisle, off the coastof France. But by the Treaty of Paris (p. 249) all threewere surrendered. Seven years later hostilities with SpainThe nearly broke out again over the Falkland Islands. Attention Islands. ^^^^ been drawn to their value in case of a war with Spainby the narrative of Ansons voyage, and a British expeditionto them had be
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . We took Havana, in the WestIndies ; Manila, in the Philippine Isles; Belleisle, off the coastof France. But by the Treaty of Paris (p. 249) all threewere surrendered. Seven years later hostilities with SpainThe nearly broke out again over the Falkland Islands. Attention Islands. ^^^^ been drawn to their value in case of a war with Spainby the narrative of Ansons voyage, and a British expeditionto them had been planned in 1748, but countermanded onthe protest of the Spanish Ambassador. In 17G5 they weretaken possession of, on behalf of the Crown, by CaptainByron (p. 296), the British claim being based on the alleged priordiscovery of them by Davis in 1592 and by Hawkins in 1594. In TEE ABMY. 1784] 269 1766 a small garrison was placed there, which was orderedotf by the Spaniards in 1769, and forcibly expelled by aSpanish fleet in June, 1770. A British squadron was hastilyequipped (p. 284), but after much negotiation the SpanishGovernment gave way and consented to restore the rV/^/ t^/ucn.^i/n/a iyfyrj^xf/ft^ :^ (froiH the Oxford Magazine of 1770.) The dispute, however, naturally intensified Spanish feelingagainst England, and helped to prepare for the renewal ofhostilities nine years later (pp. 250, 274). In the American War of Independence, the first bloodwas shed near Boston in April, 1775. The same restlessenergy which in happier times had led Massachusetts to 270 AN EBA OF NEW DEPARTURES. The American War. BnnkersHill. [1742 tifrht in the quarrels of the mother country with France andSpain, now showed itseU in active preparations for civil Bostonians raised a kirge miUtia, and at Concord, avillage about twenty miles from Boston, collected the sup-plies necessary for their equipment. To destroy the , who commanded the kings troops in Boston, sent ast
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