The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) was a colonial conflict fought between Great Britain and Spain, primarily in the Caribbean and off the coast of South America. #History #WarOfJenkins'Ear #ThirteenColonies #BlackLegend #BlasDeLezo #ColonialWars #EdwardVernon #RobertJenkins #RobertWalpole #WestIndies #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25508-en/
How did a single severed ear spark a global colonial war?

The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1748) was a colonial conflict fought between Great Britain and Spain, primarily in the Caribbean and off the coast of South America. Looking to protect its interests in...

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Myths, fear, and propaganda distorted the truth. The Spanish Inquisition wasn't the bloodbath many believe. Discover the facts, numbers, and political motives behind one of history's most misunderstood institutions.
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This afternoon I enjoyed browsing through the printed edition of a recent TLS. One is so much more likely to happen upon the unexpected, and I was not disappointed today.

For example, Notre Dame historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto takes the Yale Latin Americanist Greg Grandin to task in an uncompromising review of "America, América: A New History of the New World":

>>I opened the book expecting instruction and entertainment. I closed it in despair. How can such a shoddy piece, so self-indulgent, so partisan, so ignorant, so poorly written and so carelessly checked, appear over the name of a well-qualified professor and the imprint of a respected publisher? <<

Fernández-Armesto is particularly critical of what he sees as Grandin's recycling of the "black legend" of Spanish colonialism. He concludes his review

>>To "American identity of the future", wrote Walt Whitman in 1883, "Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts . It is time to realize --for it is certainly true--that there will not be found any more cruelty, tyranny, superstition, etc., in the resume of past Spanish history than in the corresponding resume of Anglo-Norman history". Some people have not realized it yet.<<

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A839229765/AONE?u=txshrpub100020&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=99da47a6

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Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me (Original 1999 Bootleg) [2022 Remaster], by Black Legend

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You See the Trouble with Me - We'll Be In Trouble Radio Edit

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What I needed to read is that we #Spaniards ate the #Amerindians
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New #Hoax with which @thetimes balloons the #BlackLegend of #Spain
What Antonio Espino has written is that #hunger was one of the scourges of "Los Conquistadores" and that in rare cases there was #Necrophagy and #Anthropophagy among the Spaniards who traveled to #America in the 16th century
Conquistadors ‘turned to cannibalism during invasion of Americas’

Spanish colonists suffering extreme hunger killed enemies for food, study suggests

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LEGEND! RIP

BBC News - Thom Bell: Philadelphia soul pioneer dies at 79
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Thom Bell: Philadelphia soul pioneer dies at 79

The musician crafted 70s soul hits like Betcha By Golly Wow, Backstabbers and Rubberband Man.

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