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A rip-roaring consideration of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France - an forgotten key to the United kingdom damage in the North american Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land with sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in United kingdom record, and the obsession with conserving Gibraltar was blamed for the increased loss of the American colonies in the Conflict of Independence. Located between your Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a location of assorted nationalities, languages, religions, and public classes. During the siege, thousands of troops, civilians, and their families withstood terrifying bombardments, starvation, and disease. Very normal people lived through extraordinary situations, from shipwrecks and naval battles to a attempted invasion of England and a daring sortie out of Gibraltar into Spain. Lethal innovations included red-hot shot, shrapnel shells, and a barrage from tremendous floating batteries. This is military and social record at its best, a tale of troops, sailors, and civilians, with royalty and list and record, workmen and engineers, priests, prisoners of battle, spies, and surgeons all swept up in a struggle for a fortress located on little more than two rectangular kilometers of awe-inspiring rock and roll. Gibraltar: THE BEST Siege in English History can be an epic pause resistor, rich in dramatic human depth - a tale of courage, endurance, intrigue, desperation, greed, and humanity. The everyday experience of all those involved are helped bring vividly alive with eyewitness accounts and expert research.
