Cartagena's Privateers and the Masterless Caribbean in the Age of Revolutions
by
Edgardo Perez Morales
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Following the 1808 French invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, an unprecedented political crisis threw the Spanish Monarchy into turmoil. On the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, the important port town of Cartagena rejected Spanish authority, finally declaring independence in 1811. With new leadership...