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Jan 5 • 02:45 UTC • 🇪🇸 Spain • ABC

Heroic defense: the day the Spanish Empire lost Gibraltar to the English

In August 1704, English Admiral George Rooke and Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt led a naval assault with over 60 ships and 4,000 men to capture Gibraltar from the Spanish Empire.

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