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This week episode 217, Spain enters the war.

In April 1779, France and Spain

signed the Treaty of Aranhueth,

which effectively drew Spain into the war with Britain.

For the past couple of centuries, Spain had been France's traditional ally and Britain's traditional enemy.

While Spain did not share France's enthusiasm for American liberty, it did

harbor grudges against Britain and welcomed an opportunity to settle some of them by entering the war. In the late 1700s, Spain was near the height of its worldwide empire.

Spain of course had been the first European power to colonize the Americas following

Christopher Columbus's revelation that an entire Western Hemisphere existed and was available

to be conquered.

After Columbus returned from his first voyage,

Spain claimed sovereignty over the entire Western Hemisphere.

It did so, even though Columbus only had limited information about a few islands in the Caribbean.

About a year after Columbus's return, Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tortoiseus, which essentially recognize Spain's

claims to all lands west of a vertical line drawn through the Atlantic Ocean.

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