A History Of The Late Siege Of Gibraltar.: With A Description And Account Of That Garrison, From The Earliest Periods

An eyewitness officer stood on the Rock as guns thundered, fleets burned and empires hung in the balance. John Drinkwater's A History Of The Late Siege Of Gibraltar is the classic first-hand chronicle of the siege of Gibraltar 1779 1783, told from inside the British garrison at Gibraltar. The fortress held against all. Written soon after the events, this British military history book blends precise observation with the immediacy of a journal kept under fire. In this primary source war accou...