Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History

by Roy Adkins, Lesley Adkins, Roy A. Adkins

Book Overview

A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British loss in the 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 and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735221626
• ISBN13: 9780735221628
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"