HIS 102
Unit 9: Imperialism

Rock of Gibraltar

The Rock of Gibraltar, a 55 million-year-old piece of limestone sticking up in the air at the western end of the Mediterranean Sea. Although not quite dating to the imperialist era of the late nineteenth century, is there a better symbol of the overseas British Empire than the Rock of Gibraltar which the British captured way back in 1704?The Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which ended the War of the Spanish Succession--a major defeat for Louis XIV--ceded Gibraltar to the United Kingdom. England has repeatedly refused to part with it since Gibraltar controls the straits of Gibraltar and access to the Mediterranean. Photo courtesy C. Wayne and Dorothy Miller.

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