Gibraltar: The Consolation Prize Britain Never Gave Back
Early Modern Europe

Gibraltar: The Consolation Prize Britain Never Gave Back

A Royal Navy sailor's petty act of spite in a Devon port decided which power would control the western Mediterranean for the next three centuries.

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