Gibraltar

Conquered by No Enemy

Marc Alexander

• Publisher: Sutton
• Year: 2009
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9780752475332
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

The story of Gibraltar is one of siege, starvation, plague, and battles interspersed with periods of peace. The colony's civilian population is made up of a rich and complex racial mix of exiled Jews, French royalists, Maltese merchants, emigrants from India, and Genoese fishermen who fled Napoleon. This history provides the background to a unique community and a chronicle of a remarkable chapter in British military history. Even now, the future of the tiny territory is still uncertain. An important RAF base, it is a fragment of Britain's imperial past set uneasily in the territory of a fellow member of the European Union apparently eager to reclaim it. Gibraltar's dramatic history is far from over.

Table of contents

• Title
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 The Pillars of Hercules
• 2 The Moors’ Gateway
• 3 A Chapter of Sieges
• 4 The ‘Catholic Kings’
• 5 ‘Most Loyal’
• 6 Habsburg or Bourbon?
• 7 Rooke Takes the Rock
• 8 Enemies Within and Without
• 9 The Treaty of Utrecht
• 10 Pawn rather than Castle
• 11 Alliances, Treaties and Secrets
• 12 ‘Imperious Cupidity’
• 13 ‘Britons Strike Home!’
• 14 A Glorious Occasion
• 15 The Junk Ships
• 16 The Grand Attack
• 17 ‘We are all friends now’
• 18 Peace and War
• 19 Peace without Pride
• 20 A Right Royal Governor
• 21 Trafalgar
• 22 Friends and Foes
• 23 Crown Colony
• 24 The Great Mystery
• 25 ‘Utterly Profitless’
• 26 Changing Times
• 27 The Panther’s Leap
• 28 War and Peace
• 29 Sanctuary on the Rock
• 30 Preparations for War
• 31 Bombs and Spies
• 32 The Felix Threat
• 33 Operation Torch
• 34 From Colony to City
• 35 The New Gibraltar
• Bibliography
• Plates
• Copyright