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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wall Ministry was a Spanish government headed by Ricardo Wall which served between 15 May 1754 to 9 October 1763 during the reigns of Ferdinand VI and Charles III.Wall came to power by thwarting the ambitions of his rival the Marquis of Ensenada. While Ensenada was pro-French and wanted to build an alliance with France to destroy British naval power, the Irish-descended Wall was an Anglophile and his government steered Spain towards neutrality and friendly reltions with Britain.When the Seven Years War broke out, Spain did not join with its…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wall Ministry was a Spanish government headed by Ricardo Wall which served between 15 May 1754 to 9 October 1763 during the reigns of Ferdinand VI and Charles III.Wall came to power by thwarting the ambitions of his rival the Marquis of Ensenada. While Ensenada was pro-French and wanted to build an alliance with France to destroy British naval power, the Irish-descended Wall was an Anglophile and his government steered Spain towards neutrality and friendly reltions with Britain.When the Seven Years War broke out, Spain did not join with its traditional ally France but mantained a strict neutrality. However when Charles III took the throne in 1759 he wanted to pursue a more pro-French policy, while retaining the popular and experienced wall as Chief Minister. By 1761 Spain was at war with Britain which had, as Wall had predicted, disastrous consequences for the Spanish who suffered a number of embarrising military defeats to British forces. He stepped down in 1763 following the Treaty of Paris handing over power to Jerónimo Gri