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In the early eighteenth century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for economic supremacy in the Americas. Tensions between the two powers were high, and wars blossomed like violent flowers for nearly a hundred years, from the War of Spanish Succession, culminating in the War of Jenkins' Ear. This war would lay the ground work for the French and Indian War and, eventually, the War of the American Revolution. The War of Jenkins' Ear was a world war in the truest sense, engaging the major European powers on battlefields ranging from Europe to the Americas to the Asian subcontinent. Yet the conflict that would eventually become known as the War of Jenkins' Ear is barely known to us today. Yet it would cost fifty-thousand lives, millions in treasure, and over six hundred ships. Even though it happened decades before American independence, The War of Jenkins' Ear reveals that this was truly an American war; a hard-fought, costly struggle that determined the fate of the Americas, and in which, for the first time, American armies participated. In this definitive work of history, The War of Jenkins' Ear explores the war that established the future of two entire continents.

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Robert Gaudi is a writer, historian, and journalist. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Washington Examiner, Harper's, Landscape Architecture Magazine, and Tri-Quarterly, among other publications. He has variously worked for the National Endowment for the Arts, sold tickets at a movie theater, tended bar and managed a classic car restoration shop. He graduated from the Univeristy of Virginia in Charlottesville and attended the University of Southern California's Graduate Film School and The University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. He lives with his children in Washington DC. Paul Heitsch is an audiobook narrator, a pianist, a composer, a sound designer, a producer, and a teacher. As a member of The Second City National Touring Company, he has performed with Chris Farley, Steve Carrell, Jane Lynch, and many others. Prior to becoming a narrator, he worked to produce hundreds of spoken-word products for companies like LeapFrog, VTech Kids, and Rosetta Stone.

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