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    Ear, known appropriately by the Spanish as the Guerra del Asiento ("War of the Asiento"). An asiento, in the Spanish language, is a short-term loan or...
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    The War of Jenkins' Ear (Spanish: Guerra del Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain....
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    South Sea Company and the Spanish Government was a prelude to the Guerra del Asiento, as the first Royal Navy fleets departed in July 1739 for the Caribbean...
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    (1779–1781). Dominican privateers had already been active in the Guerra del Asiento decades prior, and they sharply reduced the amount of enemy trade...
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    "Half Man"), the most crucial battle of the War of Jenkins' Ear (La Guerra del Asiento [es]). He wrote a diary about the battle which along with the diary...
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    Bolivian silver to Spain and for the import of enslaved Africans under the asiento system. It was defensible against pirate attacks in the Caribbean. The...
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    the Portuguese settlements in the Banda Oriental the issue of the Guerra del Asiento, between Spain and England, the cobblestone work of the Riachuelo...
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    arrived at the Port of Buenos Aires as a member of the Company of the Real Asiento de Inglaterra. He held honorary positions in the city, being appointed...
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    in Africa to purchase slaves; the Spanish Empire instead relied on the asiento system, awarding merchants from other European nations the license to trade...
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    former mining towns in the north of the state (in the municipalities of Asientos and Tepezalá), which are now almost ghost cities. The haciendas, hot springs...
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