Menorca sota domini britànic

Menorca under British rule is the period of almost a century — the xviii— of the history of Menorca during which island of the Balearic archipelago was under the sovereignty of Great Britain, since its conquest in 1708 by an Anglo-Dutch squadron in the middle of the War of the Spanish Succession - and which by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 passed to British sovereignty as well as Gibraltar— until the Treaty of Amiens of 1802 in which it returned to the sovereignty of the Monarchy of Spain, except during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763) which was occupied by the French. In 1756 the French fleet of Admiral Glassionaire defeated the fleet of the Englishman John Bing - whom the British Admiralty subjected to a council of war for cowardice and was shot - which allowed the landing of the French troops under the command of the Duke of Richelieu who occupied the island. After the Peace of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War, Menorca returned to British sovereignty (González-Arnao). and between 1782 and 1798 when it temporarily returned to Spanish sovereignty. In August 1781, again at war with England, a Franco-Spanish fleet commanded by the Duke of Crillon attacked Menorca and after a six-month siege managed to capitulate on February 5, 1782. Menorca would remain under Spanish sovereignty for the sixteen following years (González-Arnao).