Spanish-held Cartagena in 1740, and his father sent him home a few months later. He missed what proved to be a disaster for the British forces at the Siege of Cartagena during the War of Jenkins' Ear, in which most of the expedition died from disease.

War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

European War

In 1740 the War of the Austrian Succession

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