. >> next on our tour of the history of fort lauderdale, author martha gutierrez steinkamp on her book "spain: the forgotten alliance" about how spain helped america gain independence from great britain. martha: i decided to write this book because every time i mentioned whatever roles gameplay in our, people look at the with a strange face. as a matter of fact, sometimes teachers would say, i've never been this in my entire life. or they would take, oh, sure, sure

. >> next on our tour of the history of fort lauderdale, author martha gutierrez steinkamp on her book "spain: the forgotten alliance" about how spain helped america gain independence from great britain. martha: i decided to write this book because every time i mentioned whatever roles gameplay in our, people look at the with a strange face. as a matter of fact, sometimes teachers would say, i've never been this in my entire life. or they would take, oh, sure, sure, you are saying this is you are spanish and you want to tell this story. i said, no i'm saying it because it really happened. that is why i decided to write it. spain's role was quite significant, because in the very early years, 74 75, also in 76 and in 77, spain was covertly assisting the colonies. why covertly? for two reasons. the first one is the most important, because spain had multiple colonies. how is spain going to support colonies getting beaten by their master? it was a very tricky situation. also at the time, there were situations between spain and england and france after the seven years war, and things were re