Great Britain, which is now officially at…
October 1762 CE
The biggest ship is HMS Kingston, which is renamed Lord Clive (sixty-gun), the other ship is the Ambuscade (forty-gun).
The small squadron, under the command of Robert MacDouall, had left Lisbon on August 30 and had been joined in Rio de Janeiro by two Portuguese warships (among which is the frigate Glória, thirty-eight-gun) transporting five hundred foot soldiers, and five storeships.
On November 2, the squadron sails from Rio de Janeiro towards the mouth of the Río de la Plata to attack Buenos Aires and Montevideo, but soon abandons the project because Spanish defenders in both cities are alerted and well prepared.
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Portuguese people
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Scottish people
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English people
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Spaniards (Latins)
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Chile (Spanish colony)
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Brazil, Colonial
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Río de la Plata, Governorate of the
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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Portugal, Bragança Kingdom of
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Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of
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Britain, Kingdom of Great
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East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies)
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