| Note: | Maps on lining-papers.
" ... Spain entered the war of American Independence in 1779 as an ally of France but not of the United States. During the earlier years of that war the Spanish government had joined France in furnishing secret aid in money and military supplies to the ... American colonies. This was not because of any sympathy for the republican cause ... but ... [she] did want the strife ... to continue ... that both English colonies and mother-country should be weakened ... Then ... Spain might push her own interests ...": page [1]. |
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