Disaster on the Spanish Main: The Tragic British-American Expedition to the West Indies during the War of Jenkins' Ear

Silver Medal for the 2023 Military Writers Society Award

Disaster on the Spanish Main unveils and illuminates an overlooked yet remarkable episode of European and American military history and a land-sea venture to seize control of the Spanish West Indies that ended in ghastly failure. Thirty-four years before the Battles of Lexington and Concord, a significant force of American soldiers deployed overseas for the first time in history. Colonial volunteers, 4,000 strong, joined 9,000 British...