The Return of Philip V to Italy after the War of the Spanish Succession. The Spanish-English Amphibian Expedition to the Toscana in 1731

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  • María Baudot Monroy Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v5i10.192

Keywords:

Mediterranean naval politics, Philip V, Amphibious expedition, English cooperation

Abstract

This paper is part of the debate on the revisionist politics of Philip V after the peace of Utrecht in 1713. His main objective was to regain control of the western Mediterranean waters and the Italian lands which had belonged to the Spanish crown before the war of succession, when they were transferred to Austria and Savoy.

We start with the argument that it was a long-range political project, initially developed by the abbot Giulio Alberoni in 1714, who was able to combine the king's vindictive desire with the Duke of Parma's fear of losing the independence of his duchy to the Austrian expansion in Italy, for being feudatory of the emperor. After the marriage of Philip V with Elizabeth Farnese, the niece of the Duke, who passed the duchy inheritance rights to their children, the king made the project the axis of its foreign policy. For 15 years unsuccessful naval expeditions, wars and negotiations with the European powers took place.

The first achievement of this policy took place in 1731 with the succession of the Infant Don Carlos to the duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Tuscany and the quartering of Spanish troops in Tuscany. This success was made possible thanks to a Spanish-English amphibious expedition, whose development and implementation we knew very little.

The consulted unpublished original documentation has enabled us not only to reconstruct the development of the expedition, but to know much about the resources mobilized, like men, ships, supplies, food, money and the very important diplomatic and naval support of England. British cooperation was crucial to the success of the expedition, which consolidated the recovery of the Spanish naval power and was the determining step to recover the presence in the western Mediterranean and in Italy.

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Author Biography

  • María Baudot Monroy, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    María Baudot Monroy es Doctora en Historia Moderna. Máster en Historia de la América colonial. Investigadora en el Departamento de Historia Moderna de la UNED. Sus investigaciones se centran en la Armada y en la política naval del siglo XVIII. Miembro del grupo de investigación Contractor State Group de la Universidad de Navarra. Autora de La defensa del Imperio. Julián de Arriaga en la Armada, 1700-1754 (Madrid 2013), editora  y coautora de El Estado en guerra. Expediciones navales españolas en el siglo XVIII (Madrid 2014) y de varias publicaciones en revistas científicas y obras colectivas. Actualmente colabora en los siguientes proyectos de investigación: “Los nervios de la guerra. Movilización de recursos militares y construcción de la Monarquía imperial hispánica en los siglos XVII y XVIII”, de la Universidad de Navarra, y “Ejército, Marina y Estado: “La construcción del sistema imperial hispánico en el siglo XVIII", del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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2016-12-22

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Vol. 5 No. 10 (2016): La logística anfibia: el poder naval del Imperio español en el Mediterráneo durante el siglo XVIII

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The Return of Philip V to Italy after the War of the Spanish Succession. The Spanish-English Amphibian Expedition to the Toscana in 1731. (2016). Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 5(10), 67-88. https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v5i10.192