At Sea
Spain signed a Treaty of Alliance at San Ildefonso with France on 19 August, entering the war against Britain on the side of France in return for concessions in Italy. In response, Britain withdrew from Corsica in order to concentrate the Mediterranean fleet at Gibraltar against the combined threat.
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Famous quotes containing the word sea:
“It is the time we have now, and all our wasted time sinks into the sea and is swallowed up without a trace. The past is dust and ashes, and this incommensurably wide way leads to the pragmatic and kinetic future.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“You and I were a couple of drunks on the sea of booze and the boat sank.”
—J.P. (James Pinckney)