Siege of Gibraltar

The Siege of Gibraltar can refer to several historical events:

  • First Siege of Gibraltar (1309) – Siege of Gibraltar, by Juan Alfonso de Guzman el Bueno in the Reconquista
  • Second Siege of Gibraltar (1315) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid caid Yahya in the Reconquista
  • Third Siege of Gibraltar (1333) – Siege of Gibraltar, by a Marinid army, led by Abd al-Malik in the Reconquista
  • Fourth Siege of Gibraltar (1333) – Siege of Gibraltar, by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the Reconquista
  • Fifth Siege of Gibraltar (1349–1350) – Siege of Gibraltar, by Alfonso XI in the Reconquista
  • Sixth Siege of Gibraltar (1374) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the Nasrid in the Reconquista
  • Seventh Siege of Gibraltar (1436) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the count of Niebla in the Reconquista
  • Eighth Siege of Gibraltar (1462) – Siege of Gibraltar, by a Castilian army in the Reconquista
  • Ninth Siege of Gibraltar (1467) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
  • Tenth Siege of Gibraltar (1506) – Siege of Gibraltar, by the Duke of Medina Sidonia
  • Capture of Gibraltar (1704) - Eleventh siege that saw the capture of the city by an Anglo-Dutch force in the name of Charles VI during the War of the Spanish Succession
  • Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar (1704–1705) – Siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army)
  • Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar (1727) – Siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish army during the Anglo-Spanish War
  • Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779–1783) – Fourteenth and final siege of Gibraltar, by a Spanish-French army in the American Revolutionary War

See also:

  • Battle of Gibraltar (1607) - Battle of the Eighty Years' War when a Dutch fleet surprised and engaged a Spanish one.

Famous quotes containing the words siege of and/or siege:

    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)