The immediate outcome was a victory for the mercantile interests of Britain. Spain renounced many of its exclusive trade rights and territorial claims in the area, ending a 200-year monopoly on Asian-Pacific trade. British subjects, as well as the Spanish, were then enabled to trade up to ten leagues from parts of the coast already occupied by Spain in northwestern America by April 1789 and could form trade-related settlements in unoccupied areas. The crisis was thus resolved peacefully but with difficulty through a set of three agreements, known collectively as the Nootka Conventions (1790–95). Without French help, Spain had little hope against the British and the Dutch, resulting in Spain seeking a diplomatic solution and making concessions. Both sides called upon allies, the Dutch joined the side of Britain Spain mobilized their navy and her key ally France also mobilized theirs, but the latter soon announced they would not go to war. Public outcry in Britain led to the mobilization of the Royal Navy, and the possibility of war. The commander of the outpost, Jose Esteban Martínez, seized some British commercial ships which had come for the maritime fur trade and to build a permanent post at Nootka Sound. It took place during the summer of 1789 at the Spanish outpost Santa Cruz de Nuca, in Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island in present-day British Columbia, Canada.
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The Nootka Crisis, also known as the Spanish Armament, was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, the Spanish Empire, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the fledgling United States of America triggered by a series of events revolving around sovereignty claims and rights of navigation and trade. Location of Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island
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