Britain's wartime access to the Azores depended on its longstanding alliance with Portugal. The Portuguese supplied their copy of the alliance agreement when Britain asked to examine it. Britain then invoked that relationship as the basis for operating from the islands. When Spain questioned the arrangement, Portugal defended it by pointing to centuries of friendship and alliance.
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How the Portuguese alliance opened the Azores
Britain invoked its longstanding alliance with Portugal to obtain wartime access to the Azores.