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Gibraltar

"Colonel Ernst August von Hugo and Lt. Colonel von Schlepegrell" by John Singleton Copley

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An oil painting depicting two German officers who participated in the Siege of Gibraltar; Copley made it as a preparatory study for a larger painting on the siege.

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"The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782", John Singleton Copley

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"Monthly Chronicle" from The Westminster magazine (October 1784), page 553

A page from the "Monthly Chronicle" section of the Westminster Magazine.

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"NARRATIVE of the SIEGE of GIBRALTAR, taken from the JOURNAL of a LADY who was present on the Spot", from the Weekly Miscellany : or, Instructive entertainer, September 24 1781

A slightly abridged copy of the same account of the Siege taken from the diary of a woman that was included in the Scots Magazine.

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"NARRATIVE of the SIEGE of GIBRALTAR, taken from the JOURNAL of a LADY who was present on the Spot", from the Universal magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure

An early copy of the anonymous excerpt from Gibraltar from August 1781.

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“The siege of Gibraltar, from the twelfth of April to the twenty-seventh of May, 1781. To which is prefixed, some account of the blockade.” London, 1781.

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This is the full account of the anonymous account of the Siege of Gibraltar excerpted in newspapers and magazines in 1781.

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A Journal of the Late and Important Blockade and Siege of Gibraltar From the Twelfth of September 1779, to Third Day of February 1783.

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The account of the Siege of Gibraltar written by Samuel Ancell, clerk to the 58th Regiment of Foot stationed on Gibraltar.

Tags: 18th century, American Revolution, Gibraltar, Siege of Gibraltar

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