[War of Jenkins' Ear]:

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A SERIES OF WISDOM AND POLICY: BEING A FULL JUSTIFICATION OF ALL OUR MEASURES EVER SINCE THE YEAR 1721, INCLUSIVE; AND ESPECIALLY OF OUR LATE MOST HONOURABLE CONVENTION WITH ... A defense of Robert Walpole's international policy leading up to and including the Convention of El Pardo (January, 1739). Walpole's long diplomatic efforts, praised by the anonymous author of this pamphlet, would soon prove to have been in vain, as the Prime Minister reluctantly declared war on Spain later in the year. The result was the desultory affair known as the War of Jenkins' Ear. Of this pamphlet's two 1739 editions, the present one is given priority by EUROPEAN AMERICANA and CATALOGUE OF THE GOLDSMITHS' LIBRARY OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE.

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