Nootka Convention
1790–1794 Spanish–British agreements to settle overlapping claims in northwestern America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 countries over overlapping claims to portions of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
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Location | Madrid, Spain |
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Outcome | Britain and Spain were guaranteed freedom of the seas |
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