Great Britain, which is now officially at…

October 1762 CE

Great Britain, which is now officially at war with Spain, does not participate in these battles, but the East India Company has plans to conquer Spanish territory in South America and buys two old warships from the Admiralty.

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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Río de la Plata View →

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Pedro Antonio de Cevallos View →

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Portuguese people View → Scottish people View → English people View → Spaniards (Latins) View → Chile (Spanish colony) View → Brazil, Colonial View → Río de la Plata, Governorate of the View → France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of View → Portugal, Bragança Kingdom of View → Spain, Bourbon Kingdom of View → Britain, Kingdom of Great View → East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View →

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Seven Years' War View → Fantastic War View → Cevallos expedition, First View →

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