Download or read book The History of Gibraltar and of Its Political Relation to Events in Europe from the Commencement of the Moorish Dynasty in Spain to the Last Morocco War written by Frederick Sayer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seeing that we possess no historical account of one of the most remarkable dependencies ever held by the British Crown, I have endeavoured (however unworthily) to fill what appeared to me to be a vacancy upon the book-shelf of our colonial histories. It has been my object to chronicle faithfully the events with which Gibraltar has been connected since its first occupation by the Moors in 711, and to sketch the influence which this coveted stronghold has exercised over the political state of Europe, more especially during the last two centuries. The records of its early history under Mohammedan rule, which I have collected from the works of Gayangos, Conde, Ayala, Montero, and others, are necessarily but crude and disjointed chronicles, almost impossible to connect in the form of a continuous narrative"--Preface (p. [v]).

Download or read book The Rock of the Gibraltarians written by Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forfatteren var britisk guvernør i Gibraltar 1978-1982 og har her skrevet om den berømte halvøs og dens befolknings historie fra de tidligste tider til vore dage.

Download or read book Gibraltar written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since ships first set sail in the Mediterranean, The Rock has been the gate of Fortress Europe. In ancient times, it was known as one of the Pillars of Hercules, and a glance at its formidable mass suggests that it may well have been created by the gods. Sought after by every nation with territorial ambitions in Europe, Asia, and Africa, Gibraltar was possessed by the Arabs, the Spanish, and ultimately the British, who captured it in the early 1700s and held onto it in a siege of more than three years late in the eighteenth century. The fact that that was one of more than a dozen sieges exemplifies Gibraltar’s quintessential value as a prize and the desperation of governments to fly their flag above its forbidding ramparts. Bradford uses his matchless skill and knowledge to take the reader through the history of this great and unique fortress. From its geological creation to its two-thousand-year influence on politics and war, he crafts the compelling tale of how these few square miles played a major part in history.

Download or read book Gibraltar written by Roy Adkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France—an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American colonies in the War of Independence. Located between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the very edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a place of varied nationalities, languages, religions, and social classes. During the siege, thousands of soldiers, civilians, and their families withstood terrifying bombardments, starvation, and disease. Very ordinary people lived through extraordinary events, from shipwrecks and naval battles to an attempted invasion of England and a daring sortie out of Gibraltar into Spain. Deadly innovations included red-hot shot, shrapnel shells, and a barrage from immense floating batteries. This is military and social history at its best, a story of soldiers, sailors, and civilians, with royalty and rank and file, workmen and engineers, priests, prisoners of war, spies, and surgeons, all caught up in a struggle for a fortress located on little more than two square miles of awe-inspiring rock. Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History is an epic page-turner, rich in dramatic human detail—a tale of courage, endurance, intrigue, desperation, greed, and humanity. The everyday experiences of all those involved are brought vividly to life with eyewitness accounts and expert research.

Download or read book Rock of Contention written by George Hills and published by London : Hale. This book was released on 1974 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Gibraltar and of Its Political Relation to Events in Europe written by Frederick Sayer and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The history of Gibraltar and of its political relation to the events in Europe written by Captain Sayer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of Gibraltar and Its Sieges written by Frederic George Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a history of Gibraltar and the many sieges against it.

Download or read book A Popular History of Gibraltar Its Institutions and Its Neighbourhood on Both Sides of the Straits and a Guide Book to Their Principal Places and Objects of Interest written by Gilbard (Lieut.-Colonel, George James) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Gibraltar written by Ignacio López de Ayala and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Siege of Gibraltar with a Description and Account of that Garrison from the Earliest Periods written by John Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gibraltar written by Marc Alexander and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Gibraltar.

Download or read book A History of the Siege of Gibraltar 1779 1783 written by John Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The History of Gibraltar and of Its Political Relation to Events in Europe from the Commencement to the Moorish Dynasty in Spain to the Last Marocco War etc written by ..... Sayer and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar written by John Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gibraltar the History of a Fortress written by Ernle Dusgate Selby Bradford and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Gibraltar's role in world affairs paying special attention to its strategic position in the British Empire.

Download or read book Gibraltar written by Gareth Stockey and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This modern history of Gibraltar updates and enhances scholarship on the Rock's history by bringing together the author's extensive archival research and developments in the secondary literature surrounding British Gibraltar. Central to its narrative is an examination of the development of a Gibraltarian community amidst British imperial rise and decline and Anglo-Spanish diplomatic vicissitudes. Gibraltar: A Modern History, is the first twenty-first century treatment of the Rock's history and as such it augments and, in many ways, replaces older treatments of Gibraltar's History.