1704-1705 - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:35:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg 1704-1705 - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 How was Gibraltar lost? https://historylab.es/how-was-gibraltar-lost/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-was-gibraltar-lost Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/como-se-perdio-gibraltar/ Historia y Vida magazine online article on "How was Gibraltar lost?"

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]]> 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.

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