Estrecho - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:46:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Estrecho - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 View of the Strait of Gibraltar https://historylab.es/view-of-the-strait-of-gibraltar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=view-of-the-strait-of-gibraltar Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:03 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/vista-del-estrecho-de-gibraltar/ The image shows a view of the Strait of Gibraltar and its surroundings, with the trenches established during the 1704 siege

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]]> After the death without descendants of Charles II, the last representative of the House of Habsburg, the War of Succession (1701-1714) for the Spanish Crown began, pitting Austracists, supporters of Archduke Charles of Austria, against Bourbons, supporters of Philip V, grandson of King Louis XIV of France. During the conflict, in 1704, Gibraltar was besieged by an Anglo-Dutch squadron in support of Archduke Charles. The interest in Gibraltar was due to its strategic location as a communications junction between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. At the end of the war, after the victory of the House of Bourbon and the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, Gibraltar was ceded to Britain, thus becoming the property of the British Crown in perpetuity in territory under Spanish jurisdiction

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