Gibraltar to the English in 1704, during the War of the

Succession. George I, then King of England, willed to give up what was considered by his nation "a barren rock, an insignificant fort, a useless charge."

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Britain, however, decided to retain this little slice of Spain, and twice gallantly repulsed the advances of the Spanish. Then came the memorable siege begun in 1779.