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War of the Quadruple Alliance: Spanish forces began a failed assault on the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas.
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War of the Quadruple Alliance
1718–20 war between Spain and a European alliance
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Spanish raid in the War of the Quadruple Alliance
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Capital and largest city of The Bahamas
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