---- Failure of the expedition by storms and wreck in the River St. Lawrence 19 ---- Decease of Joseph I., Emperor of Austria -- ---- Election of Charles III. of Spain to be Emperor of Germany -- 1712 Negotiations for general peace -- 1713 Definitive treaty of peace at Utrecht on 31st March 20 ---- Gibraltar, Minorca, and Nova Scotia ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of peace -- ---- The Corps of Marines disbanded -- 1714 Decease of Her Majesty Queen Anne on the 1st of August -- ---- Accession of King George I. -- ---- Attempts of the Son of the late King James II. to obtain the throne, defeated -- ---- Augmentations made to the Army 21 ---- Three of the late regiments of Marines, now the 30th, 31st, and 32nd, retained, and placed on the establishment of the infantry of the Line -- 1739 War declared against Spain on the 23rd of October, 1739 -- ---- Augmentation of the Land forces 22 1739 Formation of six regiments of Marines 22 ---- Fleet of five ships, with a detachment of Marines, under Admiral Vernon, proceeded against _Porto Bello_ -- 1740 An additional regiment of Marines, of four battalions, formed at New York in North America, and Colonel Spotswood appointed Colonel-Commandant 23 ---- The six regiments of Marines augmented from 700 to 1000 men each -- ---- Augmentation of the four invalid companies of Marines -- ---- Usefulness of Marine forces, as proved on former occasions, now generally admitted 24 ---- Formation of four additional regiments of Marines, of 1000 men each -- ---- Attack and capture of Fort Chagre 25 ---- Fleet under Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle, and troops, including the six Marine regiments under General Lord Cathcart, proceeded to the West Indies, for the purpose of attacking the Spanish possessions in South America -- ---- Death of General Lord Cathcart at Dominica 26 ---- Brigadier-General Wentworth succeeded to the military command of the expedition -- 1741 The whole collected at Jamaica under Admiral Vernon --