the Thirteen Colonies that war had broken out between the British and the Spanish, and Carolinian colonists met the news with satisfaction. The mercantile community in the colony looked forward to an opportunity to curtail Spanish influence. The time had arrived, South Carolinians believed, to remove once and for all a galling Spanish influence which had incited rebellion among slaves, to establish firm provincial boundaries and secure the Indian trade by pushing back the frontier with Spanish Florida, and to realize profits from afar which had objectives as much commercial as political. When the war had finally ended, however, South Carolinians were relieved; the war had not brought in much of the way of benefits. "No sooner had the war begun than did Charleston merchants begin to consider methods by which they could gain from it". The Carolinian and Georgian colonists hoped to benefit from the Spanish Alarm, but as the raids continued, merchants in the SOuthern Colonies realized their negative effects. Many colonists started to lose their enthusiasm, especially during the 1740s. The court, "during nine years of actual warfare, recorded only twenty-one enemy ships which were captured by Charleston privateers and condemned as prizes of war". The book Georgia Journeys stated that "the Spanish Alarm...was of great damage to the colony in regarding cultivation". Aftermath The two nations settled some of their differences in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. This effectively halted the Spanish raids into British American colonies. Sources Archives, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources The Colonial and State Records of North Carolina, Volume XXII P. M. Handover, The Second Cecil: The Rise to Power, 1563-1604 of Sir Robert Cecil, Late First Earl of Salisbury (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959), 159, http://www.questiaschool.com/read/10497457. William S. Powell, and Michael Hill. The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History. 2nd ed. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. http://www.questiaschool.com/read/121870112. Trevor R. Reese, "Britain's Military Support of Georgia in the War of 1739-1748," The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March, 1959), pp. 1–10 Stuart O. Stumph, "Implications of King George's War for the Charleston Mercantile Community," The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Jul., 1976), pp. 161–188 Carl E. Swanson, "American Privateering and Imperial Warfare, 1739-1748," The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Jul., 1985), pp. 357–382 References Pre-statehood history of North