Nootka Convention

Nootka Convention

The Nootka Sound Conventions were a series of three agreements between the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Great Britain, signed in the 1790s which averted a war between the two empires over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

Read more about Nootka Convention:  Claims of Spain, Disputed Sovereignty, Nootka Conventions, Unresolved Borders, U.S. Claims

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