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Netherlands to Austria and Savoy; on the other hand, England kept Gibraltar and Menorca and obtained different American trade rights.

The Treaty of Utrecht did not put an end to the war of Succession, although it was limited to within the peninsula, where some areas remained loyal to the Austrian cause. The end of this long conflict arose after the surrender of Barcelona and Majorca in September, 1714 and July, 1715, respectively.

The plans in this collection refer little to the final stages of the war, in contrast to the information provided about its beginnings, in what can be described as journalistic detail. Not even the great victories of the Bourbonic troops –Almansa Brihuega and Villaviciosa de Tajuña–, which were of decisive importance, deserve the slightest mention. The last event recorded in this cartographic collection is the occupation of Balaguer (September, 1709) by the allied army under the command of Count Stanhope and Marshal Staremberg (119); in contrast, there is abundant graphic evidence of the two Spanish possessions which, as a result of the Utrecht negotiations, were given to England: Gibraltar and Menorca. This did not, however, mean that the Spanish crown had explicitly renounced its rights to recovery land which had dramatically been separated from its natural sovereignty. There were attacks aimed at reconquering the island and the Rock throughout the 18th century, with unequal outcomes. The attacks on Menorca were successful, but Gibraltar has remained in English hands to date, and this continues to be an unsolved issue between Great Britain and Spain.