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Description: English pamphlet with maps of the Caribbean and main Spanish cities in the region, published in 1740 to build public support for the ongoing war against Spain (War of Jenkins' Ear, 1739-1742) and to incite to the conquest of Havana, Cuba . Title: The Seat of WAR in the WEST INDIES, containing New & Accurate Plans of the HAVANA, LA VERA CRUZ, CARTAGENA and PUERTO BELLO (taken from Spanish draughts) also of SAN AUGUSTIN and the Bay of Honda in Cuba...
Title: The seat of war in the West Indies 1740
Credit: John Carter Brown Library
Author: Published pursuant to Act of Parliament Feb. 9 1739/40. by G. Foster at the White Horse in S. Pauls Church
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