Note 28 — Chapter XXVIII
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"In the latter part of this year (1779), Spain decided on joining France in the war, anxious as she was to take the chance of recovering Gibraltar, Jamaica, and the Floridas." (Tucker's History of the United States, Vol. I., Chap. iii., p. 251.)
Thus England had arrayed against her two of the most powerful Governments, with the two most powerful fleets in Europe, besides the war in America.