In the fall of 1812, America needed allies for the continuing war with Great Britain. Spain would have proved a worthy confederate, if not for the recent diplomatic and territorial disputes with the United States. During America’s first war with Great Britain, Spanish aid was so important towards gaining independence that George Washington repeatedly wrote to King Carlos III after the war to thank him. As war with Britain loomed again, however, most Americans held out little hope for a similar alliance. American and Spanish interests had parted company in the years since Washington’s correspondence because of growing American appetites for pieces of Spain’s declining New World empire.
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