Équidos y albéitares a finales del siglo XVIII en unmomento crucial de las relaciones diplomáticas entre España y los Estados Unidos de América
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- Cristina Velasco Bernal (dir. congr.)
Publisher: Grupo Asís Biomedia
ISBN: 978-84-09-45255-2
Year of publication: 2022
Pages: 224-231
Congress: Congreso Iberoamericano de Historia de la Veterinaria (18. 2022. San Lúcar de Barrameda)
Type: Conference paper
Abstract
The objective of this communication is to study two actions of the Spanish Crown,carried out with great secrecy, in which three equids were involved as a gift. On theSpanish side, the highest representatives of the State intervened, the recipients beingtwo great American personalities. Among the measures adopted during the operationsin Spain, the intervention of two farriers and albéitares is detected.The moment was critical, since Spain had enormously helped the Americans toshake off the British yoke in their revolutionary war, but since then it was also theirgreat neighbor and important issues had remained unresolved that had to be saved.First-hand archival sources have been used, fundamentally the diplomaticdocumentation between Spain and the United States from the National HistoricalArchive. In the United States, the National Archives and the Library of Congress wereof great importance.