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but the attempt proved a disaster, in which 4,000 men were lost to disease. The main objective of the blockade had been to prevent Spanish galleons leaving and sailing for Spain, but the blockade failed to accomplish this - and eventually withdrew.
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After a four-month siege, with several unsuccessful and costly attempts, Spanish troops gave up and retired on 12 June. Spain had lost over 1,400 men while the British had suffered around 300 casualties.
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Some historians put the beginning of the war in 1726, the year in which the Anglo-Spanish relation was already very tense. A British fleet was sent to the
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No more hostilities took place and a truce was declared in February 1728, with a preliminary agreement of issues at the March
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to an Anglo-Dutch fleet and when the war finished in 1714, Spain was forced to accept the loss of Gibraltar in the
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and thought the time to be right to try to recapture Gibraltar. In reaction, Britain signed the
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broke out between them. Britain emerged from the conflict by forming a very strong
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with a high British death toll. It eventually ended with a return to the previous
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The Spanish had expected material help from the Austrians promised under the
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Britain had tried to use its naval power early in the dispute, by blockading
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and supervision of Chief Engineer of the Spanish Royal Engineer Corps
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The diary of a soldier in the garrison of Gibraltar under siege, 1727
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to disturb Spanish shipping without actually starting a war.
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Contemporary representation of the siege of Gibraltar in 1727
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during the late 1720s, and consisted of a failed Spanish
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Anglo-Spanish Wars (disambiguation)
Anglo-Spanish wars

Gibraltar
Porto Bello
Mediterranean Sea
Treaty of Seville (1729)
Great Britain
Spain
Kingdom of Great Britain
George I
Kingdom of Great Britain
Robert Walpole
Spain
Philip V
Spain
Juan Guillermo Ripperdá
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Anglo-Spanish War
Porto Bello
Gibraltar
11 March 1727
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1585–1604
1625–1630
1654–1660

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