ARP243 Relieving Gibraltar

In January 1780 Britain send a relief fleet to resupply its garrison at Gibraltar. The Garrison had been under siege for six months by the Spanish Army and Navy.
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Book Recommendation of the Week: Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History, by Roy and Lesley Adkins.
Online Recommendation of the Week: A History Of The Siege Of Gibraltar (1779-1783), by John Drinkwater, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.109526
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