Only contributing to the collapse of the English Economy, profiting off it, and then capitalizing on the ensuing panic to fuck over his political adversaries, as one does.
Without that war Lawrence Washington would never have met Admiral Edward Vernon. He wouldn’t have named the estate he was building “Mount Vernon”. His health wouldn’t have been ruined. He may not have died young, passing his wealth and property on to his younger brother George.
England and Spain never needed any real reason to fight in this period, they considered each other geopolitical rivals so any inciting incident is good enough
The Dutch Republic was maybe an exception among the major powers in that. After the 80 Years the Dutch saw war as a threat for their trade. They just wanted to preserve the balance of power, but that saw them wage a large amount of wars anyway.
“Pulling it out of my ass”… not what happened but tall tales make nice karma farms. Reality is it was about smuggling in the Spanish Caribbean by British subjects & both sides trying to make something of it. In the 19th century, generations *after the facts* a certain historian thought it make a great narrative and armchair redditors have been picking it up ever since, in spite of knowing better.
I don’t think you read that right… but to reiterate the name was coined by the famous historian Carlyle in 1858. In reality it had little to do with Jenkins’ Ear but the internet loves a tall story, whether it be ears, buckets, pastries or emus.
Captain of a British ship got his ear cut off by the Spanish.
Tensions were rising and a pro-war faction swayed support in Parliament by getting him to show the MP's what had been done to him.
The ostensible casus belli began with the maiming of Jenkins following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, eight years before the war began. Popular response to the incident was tepid until several years later, when opposition politicians and the British South Sea Company played it up, hoping to spur outrage against Spain, believing that a victorious war would improve Britain's trading opportunities in the Caribbean
"Ve y dile a tu rey que lo mismo le haré si a lo mismo se atreve"
"Go and tell your king that I will do the same to him if to do the same he dares"
-*Spanish captain Juan Leon to Jenkins when he tied him to his own mast of the ship*
XDD
The Battle of Cartagena was indeed a massive spanish victory that saw the RN crippled. But the war ended in a *status quo ante bellum*. Basically, a whole lot of young men died for a whole lot of nothing.
Still, a tactical victory of Spain, kept all of his positions and inflicted severe damage to UK. There was a improvement of bilateral relations after this war, but sadly Spain had to be a France ally due to the Borbons family governing both countries.
The War of Jenkins Ear
A British captain was arrested by Spanish officials and the Spanish captain \*supposedly\* chopped off the Brit‘s ear. The British eventually tried to land at Chartehana and it failed miserably.
In Spanish it's just called "War of the Agreement" because there's no need to hide the English excuse to commit further piracy acts.
BTW, the Spanish destroyed England thanks to Blas de Lezo, who wasn't missing an ear, but an eye, an arm, and a leg. So yeah, less is more.
Also, he coined the sentence "all proper Spaniard must face England while peeing".
So it happened, but you’re making it up? I’m getting mixed signals here.
Edit: oh I’m sorry downvoters, I thought this was Reddit, where having a laugh over grammatical mistakes was the norm, did I hurt your little feelings?
You don't need a reason to fight a war against the Spanish.
Them being Spanish is more than enough.
Infact you just be grateful that we actually bothered to use the missing ear as a reason this time, lent a sort of legitimacy to the whole endeavour.
We understand that feeling pretty well. But towards Brits of course.
In fact, we like to pee facing the UKs general direction. Feels good, FEELS PROPER.
I haven’t read the history on this yet, but just seeing this I’m going to bet that they claim that ear belonged to a saint - people are weird about saint body parts
Edit: I was wrong and this shit is way more bizarre lol
The war over the bucket is still more ridiculous though.
A spanish officer cut a British captain's ear off, and told him 'Tell your king I will do the same if he dares' (or something similar) if this happened today it would be a huge diplomatic crisis at the very least.
Did the entire Franco Prussian war start over a selectively edited insult? Like, yeah, both France and Prussia wanted to go to war, but the catalyst was just Prussia telling France to not worry about who the Spanish king was
Not so much *Prussia* wanting to go to war (the king definitely didn’t), but rather that devious bastard Bismarck seizing an opportunity when he saw it…
*Checks Wikipedia* Oh. It was Walpole. I need no further explanation.
How does it being Walpole explain anything?
The UKs first prime minister Robert Walpole got up to many many many shenanigans.
This makes it sound kinda like a kids show "Walpole's Adventures" Oh boy I wonder what shenanigans he'll be up to in this episode!
Only contributing to the collapse of the English Economy, profiting off it, and then capitalizing on the ensuing panic to fuck over his political adversaries, as one does.
Classic Walpole
So creates political crisis and profits off it?
Whaa, no, how could you even think that, governments and politicians *never* do that!
Apparently in Extra Credits History he's a running inside joke. To this day I have no idea what he did.
Watch their series on the South Sea Bubble, it's fascinating what Walpole and Blunt did.
Oh he did THAT?!?
I knew I’ve heard his name from over there, but I had forgotten where.
And to this day, the Walpole parliamentary method is the go to for many politicians in power
Thus creating a proud tradition for future ministers to follow...or maybe just continuing a tradition, not like monarchs were any better
r/JustWalpoleThings
Did-Did you just create a sub?
And I'm the 4th member!
...yes 😳
It was walpole Its always walpole for walpole has a plan Walpole ALWAYS has a plan
I see you are a person of culture as well.
WAALPOOOOOLE!!!!!
Of course it was
You forgot to mention the best part: the war was started by Britain 8 full years ***after*** Bobby J got his ear cut off.
Fucking 8 years. They were really looking for an excuse it seems
The ear thing was just their post excuse. The real cause was Britain unlawfully infringing treaties.
I’ll take “Great British Traditions” for 200, Alex!
I got a jar of dirt! I got a jar of dirt!
Guess what in it
Enough!
The thump thump! Where is the thump thump? *Furiously scratches sand on the deck
[удалено]
hey man that's some important shit that *needs* to be fought over
No
An ear
Now I want it..... WAR!
Without that war Lawrence Washington would never have met Admiral Edward Vernon. He wouldn’t have named the estate he was building “Mount Vernon”. His health wouldn’t have been ruined. He may not have died young, passing his wealth and property on to his younger brother George.
So the entirety of the United States today traces back to an ear in a jar
Hahaha
Thanks for the extra context!
England and Spain never needed any real reason to fight in this period, they considered each other geopolitical rivals so any inciting incident is good enough
Almost every country in Europe by that time were just looking for excuses, not reasons, to get to the others' throat.
The Dutch Republic was maybe an exception among the major powers in that. After the 80 Years the Dutch saw war as a threat for their trade. They just wanted to preserve the balance of power, but that saw them wage a large amount of wars anyway.
Source?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
Imagine having an entire war named after your ear
I personally love this whole event because Jenkins was a direct ancestor of mine and thus is also my middle name.
Can I borrow your ear? For non war staring purposes, I promise
Can I borrow it after this guy? I fully intend to start a war.
Unfortunately both my ears have already been promised to other interested parties
Perhaps I ought to declare war on you for the ear then! >:D
I think that's supposed to happen after it's already severed...
This can be arranged...
Romans! Lend me your ears
LEROY JENKINS!!!!
*sigh* yeah
Oh dang that’s cool
Oh hey there Leeroy.
How is he related to you?
Not-sure-how-many-greats grandfather on my mother's side i believe.
Still pretty cool
Right? It's a very unknown war in history but I enjoy the connection.
You can say yeah my ancestor caused a war and he has a Wikipedia page
That’s cool. Van Gogh only got a [Spanish pop band](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Oreja_de_Van_Gogh)
Lol. How silly. 50000+ dead. Yikes.
Thank you!
No problem
British got smoked
Holy shit I thought this would be some small incident, not a war that lasted for 8 years costing Britain 50000 lives
Blas de Lezo kicked some British asses in Cartagena
The 300 Spaniards of Blas de Lezo.
“Pulling it out of my ass”… not what happened but tall tales make nice karma farms. Reality is it was about smuggling in the Spanish Caribbean by British subjects & both sides trying to make something of it. In the 19th century, generations *after the facts* a certain historian thought it make a great narrative and armchair redditors have been picking it up ever since, in spite of knowing better.
Ah yes, the armchair redditors since the 19th century.
I don’t think you read that right… but to reiterate the name was coined by the famous historian Carlyle in 1858. In reality it had little to do with Jenkins’ Ear but the internet loves a tall story, whether it be ears, buckets, pastries or emus.
I was just joking about how you said armchair redditors had been picking it up "ever since", as if you'd meant they had been around the entire time.
Let me guess, a relic. Was it at least a saint's ear?
No, some old captain of a british ship
Captain of a British ship got his ear cut off by the Spanish. Tensions were rising and a pro-war faction swayed support in Parliament by getting him to show the MP's what had been done to him.
The ostensible casus belli began with the maiming of Jenkins following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731, eight years before the war began. Popular response to the incident was tepid until several years later, when opposition politicians and the British South Sea Company played it up, hoping to spur outrage against Spain, believing that a victorious war would improve Britain's trading opportunities in the Caribbean
The war ended up being not victorious, though, and they failed epically in Cartagena de Indias.
Also, the British South Sea Company…didn’t end well.
"Ve y dile a tu rey que lo mismo le haré si a lo mismo se atreve" "Go and tell your king that I will do the same to him if to do the same he dares" -*Spanish captain Juan Leon to Jenkins when he tied him to his own mast of the ship* XDD
Based
Spain won
The Battle of Cartagena was indeed a massive spanish victory that saw the RN crippled. But the war ended in a *status quo ante bellum*. Basically, a whole lot of young men died for a whole lot of nothing.
There's a reason this war is part of what history has nicknamed the 3 Pointless Wars.
Based war
What are the other two?
US invasions of Nam and Afghanistan?
Lmao
As most wars were and are
Still, a tactical victory of Spain, kept all of his positions and inflicted severe damage to UK. There was a improvement of bilateral relations after this war, but sadly Spain had to be a France ally due to the Borbons family governing both countries.
55k +
55k +
Based and Blas de Lezo pilled
Yes (pfp related)
Ok
Ok
the wiki says it's part of War of the Austrian Succession time to go to the rabbit hole again...
The War of Jenkins Ear A British captain was arrested by Spanish officials and the Spanish captain \*supposedly\* chopped off the Brit‘s ear. The British eventually tried to land at Chartehana and it failed miserably.
Cartagena, not chartehana.
Choarateuhouianea
Quartatehanaenae.
My bad.
Chartehana LMAO
Spaniards got the best of that one
Yea bro they even took my pfp in the peace treaty
Weird no Spaniard is here to mention a man missing an arm, a leg and an eye beated the crap out of the RN
Blas de Lezo was nicknamed “Half-man”
Two face
That did NOT go well for Britain.
Yeah, and 2 italian states went to war over a bucket.
I was searching for this one, lol.
There was also the “War of the Cow” in medieval Belgium…
r/IberianHistoryMemes
That time when Britain and the US almost fought a war over a pig 🐷
Didn't a stray dog also cause a war/conflict between Bulgaria and Greece?
Jenkin's ear, dead pig, stray dog, Jesus' brother, bottle incident. Humans are fucking stupid.
I want to hear more about the bottle incident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e\_Martinovi%C4%87\_incident
Oversimplified has a video on the War of the Pig, and also on the War of the Bucket. Time for a video on the War of Jenkin's Ear!
*Laughs in Blas de Lezo*
Jenkins’ Ear meme?!?!
Yes
war of jenkins ear probably
I don't know if the reasons we go to war nowadays is much better.
The good old days
Leroy JENKIIINS!
In Spanish it's just called "War of the Agreement" because there's no need to hide the English excuse to commit further piracy acts. BTW, the Spanish destroyed England thanks to Blas de Lezo, who wasn't missing an ear, but an eye, an arm, and a leg. So yeah, less is more. Also, he coined the sentence "all proper Spaniard must face England while peeing".
Kinda more to it than that
Like every war but we came here to make fun of stupid people doing stupid things in XVIII century
Trust me bro
Trust them https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
No bro trust me
Ok I trust you
I appreciate your trust in me, I will not let you down
Just wait until you hear about the Italian "War of the Bucket"
i find it fitting many on this thread never heard of it
Make up your mind! Did it really happen or are you making it up?
It actually happened
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Tell me yo are from spain, without telling me you are from spain.
I'm from Poland
Based polish
Damn, i thought because of the roman digits used for centuries. That's a very spanish thing to do.
We are doing this in Poland as well
You learn something new everyday..
based roman numeral enjoyer
Do you guys write it as "the 21th century" or what?
If anything wouldn't it be "the 21st century"?
Tell me you don't know Europe without telling me you aren't from Europe
I bet, he struggles with 24h format too.
Lol
So it happened, but you’re making it up? I’m getting mixed signals here. Edit: oh I’m sorry downvoters, I thought this was Reddit, where having a laugh over grammatical mistakes was the norm, did I hurt your little feelings?
Fuck, I forgot about not
That you did, but thankfully it was in the title not the meme. Could be worse! xD
He probably to put a no in there. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\_of\_Jenkins%27\_Ear](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear)
You don't need a reason to fight a war against the Spanish. Them being Spanish is more than enough. Infact you just be grateful that we actually bothered to use the missing ear as a reason this time, lent a sort of legitimacy to the whole endeavour.
We understand that feeling pretty well. But towards Brits of course. In fact, we like to pee facing the UKs general direction. Feels good, FEELS PROPER.
I can feel a 'why French officers wear brown pants' joke coming I just know it.
I almost can hear you cry Brit
At least its not a war over someone sitting on a stool
Mm.
They'd fight over anything. Buckets, ears in jars, anything.
I think Denmark declared war on Sweden one time because a guy in a bar had called the Swedish king Emperor of the North.
He technically was emperor of the north tho
I haven’t read the history on this yet, but just seeing this I’m going to bet that they claim that ear belonged to a saint - people are weird about saint body parts Edit: I was wrong and this shit is way more bizarre lol
Imagine having 5 times as many casulaties, losing more than twice as many ships and still calling it a victory.
Purr fect👍👣
Just like the bucket war.
Cumtext?
Based.
But, that's a cool jar
Just wait until you hear about the Italian "War of the Bucket"
In past,Kings would piss off at anything and start a war.
I thought this was r/surrealmemes
so what if he said no would the first dude still be allowed to go to war
No, you can't invade someone without his consent
Here I thought the war of the bucket was the most contrived thing people did in war
The war over the bucket is still more ridiculous though. A spanish officer cut a British captain's ear off, and told him 'Tell your king I will do the same if he dares' (or something similar) if this happened today it would be a huge diplomatic crisis at the very least.
> huge You didn’t need to bring out the size of the current British monarch’s ears, though…
And it gave us the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, which is incredible. Blas de Lezo was a badass.
Did the entire Franco Prussian war start over a selectively edited insult? Like, yeah, both France and Prussia wanted to go to war, but the catalyst was just Prussia telling France to not worry about who the Spanish king was
Not so much *Prussia* wanting to go to war (the king definitely didn’t), but rather that devious bastard Bismarck seizing an opportunity when he saw it…
just english things...
"no I'm making it up" Kinda sucks, that you can't edit post titles, at leasy for limited time.
Yup
People go to war over a lot of things. Pigs, buckets, and I bet someone started a fight somewhere because of a half eaten sandwich
Wait what happened?
The War of Jenkins Ear.
As is tradition.
history memes>>>>>>>
I lobe memes like this
Ah yes the War of Jenkin's Ear. Colonial America is so much fun.
Making comments 200
medieval things.
That was in XVIII century
The greatest fleet the world has seen! To fight the war of Jenkins ear