If the work is about the planned 1779 invasion but focuses on Spain and the Spanish point of view, that decision seems sound.
Whether it should get "Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783 -- Campaigns" or "Anglo-French War, 1778-1783 -- Campaigns" would depend on the focus of the work. In my opinion, if it's about the 1779 invasion attempt generally, it should probably get both.
The main (until the appearance of whatever you're cataloging?) scholarly monograph on this campaign, A. Temple Patterson's The Other Armada: The Franco-Spanish Attempt to Invade Britain in 1779. [Manchester, UK]: University Press, 1960) covers all aspects of the campaign (French plans and actions, Spanish plans and actions, and British defensive plans and actions ,etc.) but confusingly only gets Anglo-French War, 1779-1783 on some OCLC records (e.g. OCLC # 77927898).
I think the essence of this problem lays with LCSH's insistence on defining some early modern armed conflicts from exclusively American points of view and conceptually splitting apart -- in a very questionable way -- some global wars according to that myopic point of view.
One egregious example is the historiographically vital work Piers Mackesy's War for America: 1775-1783 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965 and later editions) -- which clearly portrays the war Britain fought from 1775-1783 against its rebellious North American colonies and, eventually, against France, Spain and the United Provinces as one war. Mackesy also shows that contemporary British political and military leaders thought of it that way also, once France and Spain got involved.
Under LCSH we don't have a heading for that war, and so (for Mackesy's book) somebody had to give the rather unwieldy array 150 United States History Revolution 1775-1783 plus 150 Great Britain History 1760-1789 (e.g. OCLC #26851403). One could add 150 Anglo-Spanish War, 1779-1783 and 150 Anglo-French War, 1778-1783, but that would make it more unwieldy, though somewhat more accurate.
LCSH's myopic approach to the scope of eighteenth-century conflicts inhibits collocation. There are potential solutions, of course, but given the gigantic scope of bibliographic file maintenance that any of them would likely cause, I wonder whether most parties would balk.
Even more acute examples come from the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War -- the treatment of the latter conflict in LCSH and LC Classification having long bedeviled me personally as both cataloger and historian.
This same conceptual problems rears its ugly head in LC Classification, but I will leave that for another time.
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Mark Danley
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We have decoded to go with Anglo-Soanish War Campaigns.
That will cover it.
THanks!
Allison
A fleet is a corporate name when it is a component of the armed forces of a country. The Armada of 1779 was a “combined Franco-Spanish naval enterprise” during the Anglo-French War of 1778-1783. It would seem to fall under “Expeditions, Military” in Group 2 of SHM H 405. These are established as 150.
The subject heading “Anglo-French War, 1778-1783—Campaigns” might cover it too.
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It seems strange to me that a ship would be a corporate name AAP but a whole fleet of them would be a subject AAP. Shipyards are also corporate name AAPs. The Armada example looks like an exception rather than the rule.
There are also corporate AAP examples like:
Great Britain. Royal Navy. British Pacific Fleet
Maryland. State Fishery Force
Japan. Kaigun. 88 Kantai
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Ann Heinrichs <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > wrote:
FYI, the ol' familiar Spanish Armada is a Subject (Armada, 1588).
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Allison Rich <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > wrote:
Thank you, Rowena and Nathan:
We have a work on this event:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armada_of_1779
I am not finding any allowance for Fleets in that list.
Does this mean it's created in NACO?
Many thanks again for your further replies,
Allison
Here it is:
https://www.loc.gov/marc/authority/ambiguous-headings.html
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Hello all:
I cannot seem to locate the page which tells you which headings are NACO and which are SACO.
I suspect we have one which will be a SACO headings (it's a fleet, like the Armada, 1588 heading) but I would just like to confirm.
Thank you for sending the link.
Allison
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