Resource Mobilisation for the 1781 Minorca Amphibious Expedition

Authors

  • Rafael Torres Sánchez Universidad de Navarra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v5i10.203

Keywords:

Amphibious expedition, Military supplies, military entrepreneurs, Minorca, Charles III

Abstract

Resource mobilisation for this amphibious expedition was not an economic problem; it was determined rather by the objectives actually sought by the government. Success came from a switch in the mobilisation geostrategy, with a heavy concentration of resources in the Lower Guadalquivir and government intervention in the mobilisation of scarce and complex resources such as soldiers and information. The vast mobilisation potential was eventually harnessed when the government allowed local authorities to tap into the resources offered by the “almacén andaluz” (Andalusian store).

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Author Biography

  • Rafael Torres Sánchez, Universidad de Navarra

    Rafael Torres Sánchez (Cartagena, 1962) es profesor titular de Historia Económica en la Universidad de Navarra. Su principal área de investigación es la Guerra y la Economía en el siglo XVIII, cuestiones sobre las cuales ha publicado diversas monografías como Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2016); Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain, Palgrave-Macmillan, Hampshire, UK, (2015); El precio de la guerra: El estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III, 1779-1783, Marcial Pons, Madrid, (2013); La llave de todos los tesoros: La Tesorería General de Carlos III, Silex, Madrid, (2012). Al mismo tiempo es editor junto a Stephen Conway de The Spending of the States: Military Expenditure during the Long Eighteenth Century: Patterns, Organisation and Consequences, 1650-1815, VDM, (2011), y en solitario de War, State and Development: Fiscal-Military States in the Eighteenth Century, Eunsa, Pamplona, (2007).

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

Resource Mobilisation for the 1781 Minorca Amphibious Expedition. (2016). Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 5(10), 156-177. https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v5i10.203

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