Porcelain in England in 1748 in order to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide. The English had read the letters of Jesuit missionary Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, which described Chinese porcelain manufacturing secrets in detail. One writer has speculated that a misunderstanding of the text could possibly have been responsible for the first attempts to use bone-ash as an ingredient of English porcelain, although this is not supported by researchers and historians. In China, kaolin was sometimes described as forming the 'bones' of the paste, while the 'flesh' was provided by the refined rocks suitable for the porcelain
Pacte de Famille of the war. The agreement involved Spain's allies Naples and Tuscany. When Spain became involved, the British occupied the Philippines and Cuba. Charles III recovered these possessions in the Treaty of Paris (1763), but ceded Florida to the British. Pacte de Famille The Pacte de Famille (, "Family Compact"; ) is one of three separate, but similar alliances between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain. The first of these ("Primer Pacto de Familia") was made on November 7, 1733 by King Philip V of Spain and King Louis XV of France in the "Treaty of the Escorial". Philip V