5Īt this point it had become clear that Spain’s hegemony belonged to the past and that the nation had to accept the decline of its empire. 4 A Spanish fleet also helped to expel the Turks from Corfu in 1716. 2 They managed to lift the siege of Ceuta initiated by Muley Ismail (1694–1727) 3 and to regain the presidio of Oran and its port at Mazalquivir, conquered by the Algerians in 1708. 1 The Bourbons’ North African policy produced better results: they strengthened their hold on the few territories Spain still held there and recovered some that had been lost. Philip v tried unsuccessfully to recover them, but from 1734 on his son, the future Charles iii, wore the crown of King of Naples and Sicily.
At the end of the War of Spanish Succession the Bourbons consolidated their hold on the Spanish throne in exchange for several concessions, including the loss of their Italian domains.
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