Dispute over the Falkland Islands between Great Britain and Spain
Falklands Crisis of 1770
Map of the Falkland Islands
Date
1770
Location
Falkland Islands
Belligerents
Spain France
Great Britain
Commanders and leaders
Duc de Choiseul Jerónimo Grimaldi
Edward Hawke
The Falklands Crisis of 1770 was a diplomatic standoff between Great Britain and Spain over possession of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. These events were nearly the cause of a war between Britain and Spain—backed by France—and all three countries were poised to dispatch armed fleets to defend the rival claims to sovereignty of the barren but strategically important islands.
Ultimately, a lack of French support, however, deprived Spain of any help, and faced with the Royal Navy alone they backed down and opened talks. The British thus had managed to gain a diplomatic victory,[1] and reached an inconclusive compromise with Spain in which both nations maintained their settlements but neither relinquished its claim of sovereignty over the islands.
^Harding 2002, p. 302.
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