Exactly 318 years ago a new Gibraltar was born

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 Friday, August 12, 2022 - 08:57
National Day 2019
National Day 2019

This month marked 318 years since the Spanish Crown lost Gibraltar. When the Prince of Hesse and Admiral George Rooke took the town with a combined force of Anglo-Dutch marines little did they know that they were planting the seeds for the birth of a new multicultural population in a nation that would become separate and distinct.


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The detractors of Gibraltar in Spain who continue to attack the status of the Gibraltarians as a people simply do not know what they are talking about. That August day in 1704 the English Admiral and the German Prince turned the tide of history.

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