Editing Menorca (section)

=== British rule ===
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[[File:Prise Port Mahon Minorque 20 mai 1756.jpg|thumb|Attack and [[Siege of Fort St Philip (1756)|capture of Fort St. Philip]], 29 June 1756]]
[[File:John Thomas Serres - Port Mahon, Minorca with British Men-of-War at Anchor - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Port Mahon, Minorca with British men-of-war at anchor after its capture in 1798. By [[John Thomas Serres]]]]
[[Capture of Minorca (1708)|Captured by Britain's Royal Navy in 1708]] during the [[War of the Spanish Succession]], Minorca became a British possession. It was formally ceded to [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] in 1713, under the terms of [[:s:Peace and Friendship Treaty of Utrecht between Spain and Great Britain#ARTICLE XI|Article XI]] of the [[Treaty of Utrecht]]. Under the governorship of [[Richard Kane|General Richard Kane]], this period saw the island's capital moved to [[Port Mahon]] and a naval base established in that town's harbour.

In 1756, during the [[Seven Years' War]], France captured the island after the [[Siege of Fort St Philip (1756)|Siege of Fort St Philip]] and a [[Battle of Minorca (1756)|failed British relief attempt]]. The 1763 [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]] enabled the British to return to the island after [[Great Britain in the Seven Years' War|Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War]].  In 1781, during the [[American War of Independence]], the British were [[Invasion of Minorca (1781)|defeated for a second time]], in this instance by a combination of French and Spanish forces, and on 5 January 1782 the Spanish regained control of the island, after a long siege of [[St. Philip's Castle]] in Port Mahon. The British ceded the island back to Spain the next year in the [[Treaty of Versailles (1783)|Treaty of Versailles]]. Menorca was [[Capture of Minorca (1798)|invaded by the British once again in 1798]], during the [[French Revolutionary Wars]], but it was finally repossessed by Spain by the terms of the [[Treaty of Amiens]] in 1802. The British influence can still be seen in local architecture, with elements such as [[sash windows]].