RT journal article T1 The Changing Strength of Siblings: Spanish Naval Officers between 1730 and 1900 A1 Ortega del Cerro, Pablo A2 Historia ModernaContemporánea, de América y del Arte AB The present work analyses fraternal relationships among Spanish naval officers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The main aim of the article is to understand the important role played by siblings and the changes undergone by fraternal links over time. In order to do this, the article addresses three objectives: characterizing fraternal ties in the Spanish naval officer corps, analyzing fraternal relationships in relation to other family links and to the officer corps’ professional context, and exploring how siblinghood transformed during these two centuries. The main source of information used in this work is the testaments signed by naval officers in Spanish navy bases. The article is divided into two parts, dealing with quantitative and qualitative issues, respectively. The first part examines the proportion of naval officers who had siblings, while the second part studies the kind of relationship that existed between them; three kinds of relationship are proposed: vertical ties, horizontal links, and secondary relationships. PB SAGE Journals SN 1552-5473 YR 2018 FD 2018 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34377 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/34377 LA eng NO Pablo Ortega del Cerro, “The Changing Strength of Siblings: Spanish Naval Officers between 1730 and 1900”, Journal of Family History, 43/4, 2018, pp. 374-393. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 05-nov-2026