El regreso de Felipe V a Italia después de la Guerra de Sucesión. La expedición anfibia hispano-inglesa a la Toscana de 1731

• Baudot Monroy, María ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: Revista Universitaria de Historia Militar, ISSN-e 2254-6111, Vol. 5, Nº. 10, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: La logística anfibia: el poder naval del Imperio español en el Mediterráneo durante el siglo XVIII), págs. 67-88
• Idioma: español
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  • español

    La muerte sin herederos del duque de Parma en enero de 1731 precipitó la sucesión al ducado del infante Carlos de Borbón, dando un impulso definitivo a las negociaciones para la ratificación del emperador austriaco a la sucesión del infante a los ducados de Parma, Plasencia y Toscana y al acantonamiento de tropas españolas en ellos. A cambio, las potencias europeas reconocieron la Pragmática Sanción. La condición de Felipe V para suscribir el pacto fue que Inglaterra garantizara militarmente su cumplimiento. Entre septiembre y diciembre de 1731 se organizó una expedición anfibia conjunta con dos escuadras, una española y otra británica, para asegurar el acantonamiento en los ducados de la guarnición española, que significó el regreso de Felipe V a Italia. 

  • English

    This paper is part of the debate on the revisionist politics of Philip V after the peace of Utrecht in 1713. His main objective was to regain control of the western Mediterranean waters and the Italian lands which had belonged to the Spanish crown before the war of succession, when they were transferred to Austria and Savoy.We start with the argument that it was a long-range political project, initially developed by the abbot Giulio Alberoni in 1714, who was able to combine the king's vindictive desire with the Duke of Parma's fear of losing the independence of his duchy to the Austrian expansion in Italy, for being feudatory of the emperor. After the marriage of Philip V with Elizabeth Farnese, the niece of the Duke, who passed the duchy inheritance rights to their children, the king made the project the axis of its foreign policy. For 15 years unsuccessful naval expeditions, wars and negotiations with the European powers took place.The first achievement of this policy took place in 1731 with the succession of the Infant Don Carlos to the duchies of Parma, Piacenza and Tuscany and the quartering of Spanish troops in Tuscany. This success was made possible thanks to a Spanish-English amphibious expedition, whose development and implementation we knew very little.The consulted unpublished original documentation has enabled us not only to reconstruct the development of the expedition, but to know much about the resources mobilized, like men, ships, supplies, food, money and the very important diplomatic and naval support of England. British cooperation was crucial to the success of the expedition, which consolidated the recovery of the Spanish naval power and was the determining step to recover the presence in the western Mediterranean and in Italy.