101 ways of counting the same history. Diaries, relations and other testimonies of the war Hispanic - Britisher in America (1779-1783)

Abstract

The war, lived by his protagonists, is a constant source of statements. Nevertheless, not always the facts and the actions are described by the same vision. To confirm the versions of those that there give different prominent figures and, even, that one offers only subject of the same fact in different dates, it allows us to bring us over a bit more to the historical truth. The war that faced Spain and France with England —1779 – 1783— and, concretely, the american theatre of operations is a good example of this variety of versions and of the need to confirm them and to analyze them with historical precision.