Popular article by José Calvo Poyato published in the magazine Historia y Vida Nº 578 in which he explains how England took advantage of the War of the Spanish Succession to turn Gibraltar into a hill. It details its capitulation to Prince George of Hesse Darmstadt and the arrival of Admiral George Rooke, Philip V’s reaction to try to recover it and the reasons for the failure of the first of the three sieges to which Gibraltar was subjected in the 18th century.
Collection: Aplications
Project: 6. Under a cloak of terror: violence and armed conflict in Europe.
Chronology: XVIII
Scope: Primary Education, Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Article of divulgation
Format: Multimedia
Source: Historia y Vida - La Vanguardia
Language: Spanish
Date: 8/2/2019
Owner: Ramón Cózar Gutiérrez (Modernalia)
Copyright: José Calvo Poyato - Historia y Vida
Abstract: Historia y Vida magazine online article on "How was Gibraltar lost?"
Tags
1704-1705Felipe VGeorge RookeGibraltarGuerra de Sucesión EspañolaInglaterramariscal Tessémarqués de VilladaríasSiglo XVIII
