When the Spanish commander Martínez seized British vessels at Nootka Sound in 1789, a dispute over a remote Pacific inlet brought Britain and Spain to the edge of war. Manning reconstructs the rival plans for occupation, the imprisonment of the English crews in Mexico, and the diplomacy that ended in the Nootka Conventions, using archives in Seville, Madrid and London.
A thorough study of a forgotten crisis that shaped the Pacific Northwest. Download the free EPUB.