Grand Battery, Gibraltar
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Grand Battery is an artillery battery in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. To the west of the grand battery was a very formidable flank which was considered to have been a "great annoyance
View of Grand Battery and the Moorish Castle in 2013
The same view from 1828
Great Siege of Gibraltar
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The Great Siege of Gibraltar was an unsuccessful attempt by Spain and France to capture Gibraltar from Britain during the American Revolutionary War. It was the largest battle in the war by number of
The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar John Trumbull, 1789
Martín Antonio Álvarez de Sotomayor Spanish army commander
George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield British Governor of Gibraltar
Panoramic view of Gibraltar under siege from Spanish fleet and land positions in foreground