ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the importance of the Anglo-Scottish union, the British participation in the War of Succession and the consequences this might have had in these events. It extends the idea of a Nueva Planta to the entire Spanish monarchy. In Spain and in Spanish historiography on the subject, the Nueva Planta is referred to as the new administrative structure that was introduced in the kingdoms of Aragon, Majorca, and the principality of Catalonia. England and the Dutch Republic began a strategy of attacking the Bourbons. One of their basic objectives was to avoid the unification of the kingdoms of Spain and France. The Spanish Austracists openly emerged in the spring of 1705, when Queen Anne of England and the Catalan Austracists signed the Pact of Genoa. Experience would seem to have shown that it was sufficient to create a new entity, Great Britain, the government of which included and accepted the English, Welsh, Scots, and Irish.
