British officers, one with a telescope, watch enemy vessels burn during the siege of Gibraltar. In the distance are the white tents of the French and Spanish camp. From Gibraltar, by Roy Adkins and ...

The painting in question: The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, by John Trumbull. The real thing, produced in 1789, now hangs in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It depicts a moment of ...

Without wishing to detract from the many merits of Roy and Lesley Adkins’ gripping, dramatically paced and thoroughly researched history of the dogged defense of Gibraltar, I do have one bone to pick.

Let's get something straight up front: Spain and the U.K. are not going to war over Gibraltar. That, at least, is what politicians from both countries have been carefully asserting since Michael ...

The 30,000 people living along a five kilometre lip of land under the famous and strategic rock are happily English ...

AS NAZI bombs rained down on enemy nations, officials in Britain’s strategic territory of Gibraltar knew they had to act fast. What transpired was an incredible labyrinth of secret bomb-proof tunnels ...

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Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. [not numbered] (Sale info: For Sale). P. Corti, Vecchio, & Co. at No. 112 Broadway, (opposite the City Hotel,) have just imported and for sale, a Great ...

Catalogue of the Napoleon Gallery, now exhibiting at 663 Broadway, opposite Bond-St. New-York: Israel Sackett, Printer, No. 53 Nassau-Street. 1851. Artist nationality: Old Master.