Re: [eia] to backtrack or not to backtrack

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake "J.J. Young":
> We are trying to decide whether or not the British depots in Spain and =
> the Spanish garrison in Gibraltar should have been repatriated, either =
> when the Anglo-Spanish alliance was broken or when the Anglo-Spanish war =
> was declared. =20
> 
> My opinion is that repatriation would not have occurred at either =
> occassion, and so the current situation is correct.  But I have no =
> strong objection to going back to represent that repatriation, if the =
> majority view is that it should have happened on one of those times.
> 
> But I need to know where things stand before I can take my reinforcement =
> phase.  Sorry to hold things up.
> 
> -JJY

I agree that the present situation is correct. There was never a time when
Britain lacked access---before due to having been granted access, and now
due to the DoW.

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