JENKINS'S EAR, WAR OF

1739–41, struggle between England and Spain. It grew out of the commercial rivalry of the two powers and led to involvement in the larger War of the Austrian Succession. The incident that gave the name to the war occurred in 1731 when, according to Robert Jenkins, master of the ship Rebecca, he had his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards. English smuggling and resentment at exclusion from the Spanish colonial trade caused the war, but Jenkins's story in the House of Commons (1738), reinforced by the showing of his carefully preserved ear, had a tremendous propaganda effect and forced the reluctant Sir Robert Walpole to declare war. The hostilities with Spain up to 1741 were marked only by the naval engagements of Admiral Edward Vernon in the West Indies.

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The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: An Operational and Command Study
Book by Robert S. Quimby; Michigan State University Press, 1997
Subjects: Command Of Troops, United States--Army--History--War Of 1812, United States--History--War Of 1812--Campaigns
THE U.S. ARMY IN THE WAR OF 1812 AN OPERATIONAL AND COMMAND STUDY...Quimby 1916-1998 THE U.S. ARMY IN THE WAR OF 1812 AN OPERATIONAL AND COMMAND STUDY...Quimby Robert S. The U.S. Army in the War of 1812: an operational and command study...
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783
Book by John Brewer; Unwin Hyman, 1989
...Succession 1688-97 , the War of Spanish Succession 1702-13 , the Wars of Jenkinss Ear and Austrian Succession...the outbreak of the War of Jenkinss Ear 1739 and the end...Utrecht 1713 and the war of Jenkinss Ear, the number of men...
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The French and Indian War
Book by Alfred A. Cave; Greenwood Press, 2004
Subjects: United States--History--French And Indian War, 1755-1763
...War 1744-48 Utrecht provided a long truce but no lasting peace. In 1739-43, Great Britain and Spain fought the War of Jenkinss Ear, prompted by disputes over trading rights in Spanish America and named after an English ship captain mutilated by...
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War Comes to Quaker Pennsylvania, 1682-1756
Book by Robert L. D. Davidson; Columbia University Press, 1957
Subjects: Pennsylvania--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, Society Of Friends
...sympathetic ministries. By the 1730s Philadelphia newspapers had become filled with rumors of war with Spain. 5 The incident of Captain Jenkinss famous ear in 1739 was all that was needed to set the spark to the tinder. Notwithstanding a genuine...
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Black Flag over Dixie: Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in the Civil War
Book by Gregory J. W. Urwin; Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
Subjects: African American Soldiers--Crimes Against--Southern States--History--19th Century, Massacres--Southern States--History--19th Century, Racism--Southern States--History--19th Century, Reprisals--History--19th Century, Southern States--Race Relations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Atrocities, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American, United States--Race Relations
...move the Lincoln administration toward harsher war policies by fanning the fires of hatred among the Northern public. The anti-Southern...murdering wounded Rebels left on the battlefield at Jenkinss Ferry. The findings suggest that scholars need...
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Choices of Law, Choices of War
Journal article by Noah Feldman; Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 25, 2002
Subjects: Criminal jurisdiction--Laws, regulations, etc., Terrorism--Laws, regulations, etc., War (International law)--Laws, regulations, etc.
...through the female line. (8) The War of Jenkinss Ear took place some eight years after...not normally be considered an act of war unless it were followed by lots...casus belli may be small (consider Jenkinss ear again), usually such a casus belli...
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Recycling Political Poetry: Tom D'Urfey's the Progress of Honesty 1680/1739
Journal article by Alan Roper; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 43, 2003
Subjects: D'Urfey, Tom--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...impossible to implement, and Britain declared war, the War of Jenkinss Ear, on 19 October 1739. Before that, and while the opposition...policy and of George II during the years preceding the War of Jenkinss Ear, and although less numerous than verse attacks from...
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Black Hamlet: Battening on the Moor
Journal article by Patricia Parker; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 31, 2003
Subjects: Black--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hamlet (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Polarity--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Symbolism of colors, White--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...the double-meaning "moor." Harold Jenkinss Arden 2 edition (London: Methuan...notes the suggested "undertone of blackamoor in moor "; Everyman...27; nero in John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes (1598). Jenkinss Long Note (456) on the Folios...
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Homicidal Compulsion and the Conditions of Freedom: The Social and Psychological Origins of Familicide in America's Early Republic
Journal article by Daniel A. Cohen; Journal of Social History, Vol. 28, 1995
Subjects: Mass murder--Case studies
...March 1992): 57-58. 9. The quoted passage is Philip Jenkinss summary of Elliott Leytons approach in Compulsive Killers: The...Washington, 1990); Steven Watts, The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (Baltimore, 1987), pp...
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Conflict and the "Slave Community": Violence among Slaves in Upcountry South Carolina
Journal article by Jeff Forret; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Crimes against property--Demographic aspects, Offenses against property--Demographic aspects, Slave families--Analysis, Slaves--Behavior, South Carolina--Social aspects, Violence--Causes of, Violence--Demographic aspects
...whites, for some slave men the ritual violence of ear-biting and eye-gouging represented a form of manly assertion in a society that denied their...confrontation until no whites were present. If so, Jenkinss remark only reinforced sentiments already welling...
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"Jesus Will Appear Again as Judge of the World and the Dead Will Be Raised": Sholto Byrnes Talks to the Bishop of Durham; Tom Wright's Literal Belief in the Resurrection Makes Him a Hero to Conservative Christians Worldwide. Here He Declares War on Militant Atheists and Liberals, and Explains Why Heaven Is Not the End of the World
Magazine article by Sholto Byrnes; New Statesman, Vol. 137, April 14, 2008
Subjects: Bishops--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Christianity--Social aspects, Religion--Social aspects, Religious beliefs--Social aspects, Wright, N.T.--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Christians Worldwide. Here He Declares War on Militant Atheists and Liberals...Explains Why Heaven Is Not the End of the World. by Sholto Byrnes...inaccuracy stuck.) No one could accuse Jenkinss distant successor Tom Wright...and the fact that he has the ear of Rowan Williams (the two are...
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Phony Apocalypse
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 57, June 20, 2005
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Political activity, Filibusters (Political science), Judicial selection--Political aspects, United States--Political aspects
...defaced a British naval officer. What began as the War of Jenkinss Ear had a long afterlife, but the sliced-off ear was...reconfiguration of constitutional arrangements. Focus on the Ear of this threatened war. It would have been more reassuring if the fight...
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Put out No Flags
Magazine article by Katha Pollitt; The Nation, Vol. 273, October 8, 2001
Subjects: Flags--United States, Symbolism--Social aspects, Taliban--Social aspects
...streets and campuses. It seems impossible to explain to a 13-year-old, for whom the war in Vietnam might as well be the War of Jenkinss Ear, the connection between waving the flag and bombing ordinary people half a world away back to the proverbial stone...
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On the Right
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 54, September 2, 2002
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Military policy, International relations--Analysis, Intervention (International law)--Political aspects, Israel--Military policy, Military intervention--Political aspects, United States--Military policy, War on Terrorism, 2001---Political aspects
...as though war or peace depends on whether Mohamed Atta talked in Prague with a princeling of Saddam Hussein. The War of Jenkinss Ear comes to mind, and reasons day by day amass against proceeding with war on the government of Iraq. It would be...


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Jenkins's Ear, War Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JENKINSS EAR, WAR OF 1739 41, struggle between England...Spanish colonial trade caused the war, but Jenkinss story in the House of Commons (1738), reinforced by the showing of his carefully preserved ear, had a tremendous propaganda effect...
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Austrian Succession, War of The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Hungarian diet and the promise of aid from Great Britain, which had been at war with Spain since 1739 (see Jenkinss Ear, War of ). Early in 1742 Austrian troops overran Bavaria and laid siege to Prague, and in July, Maria Theresa made peace...
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Walpole, Robert, 1st Earl of Orford
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the War of the Polish Succession (1733 35). In 1739, however, the war party forced him into the War of Jenkinss Ear (1739 41; see Jenkinss Ear, War of ), which in turn involved Britain in a general European war (see Austrian Succession, War of...
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Philip V , King of Spain
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...brother Philip. Spains entry into the War of the Austrian Succession was preceded (1739) by the outbreak of the War of Jenkinss Ear with Great Britain. In 1733 the first Franco-Spanish Family Compact was concluded. Under Philip, Spain began...
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Vernon, Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...war with Spain. When war was finally declared (see Jenkinss Ear, War of ), Vernon won great popularity by his capture (1739) of Portobelo. However, the failure of his joint expedition...
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