George Rooke - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:37:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg George Rooke - 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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]]> The occupation of Gibraltar by the British in 1704 https://historylab.es/the-occupation-of-gibraltar-by-the-british-in-1704/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-occupation-of-gibraltar-by-the-british-in-1704 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/la-ocupacion-de-gibraltar-por-los-ingleses-en-1704/ Online article from the National Geographic History magazine on "The occupation of Gibraltar by the British in 1704"

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]]> Germán Segura’s article in the magazine Historia National Geographic explains the occupation of Gibraltar by the British in 1704 through nine images: The surrender of Gibraltar in August 1704, engraving by Johan August; The coronation of Philip V, by François Gérard; A disputed rock (photograph Peñón); British warship off the Rock of Gibraltar, by Thomas Whitcombe; Admiral George Rooke, by Michael Dahl; Bombardment and landing; Defence of Gibraltar by the English against the Spanish siege of 1779-1783, by John S. Copley; Treaty of Utrecht; The Moorish castle of Gibraltar.

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