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This was about 1789-1790 -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nootka_Crisis
It was a standoff over trading in the Pacific Northwest between Britain and Spain. WI (probably) the British escalated it into a war.
Would it be easy for the UK to impose a settlement on Spain? Or could Spain hold its own because of the distance from other
British possessions?
Could/would France stay out?
How would George Washington's US, and Catherine the Great's Russia, react to an Anglo-Spanish war?