Turnbull's Lane
Turnbull's Lane is known as detras de los cuartos in panish. Its English name is taken from a once local merchant and his son who were both named John Turnbull. The younger John Turnbull left the rock during the Great Siege of Gibraltar but he kept links for fifty years. He had met Captain Francisco de Miranda in 1774 in Gibraltar. Miranda who was visiting from Spain returned to fight in the American Revolutionary War become a French general and a Venezualan revolutionary. Turnbull remained Miranda's banker and agent even when their respective countries were at war.
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