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- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
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- Operation Gibraltar, the name given to Pakistan's failed plan to infiltrate the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region in north-western India ...17 KB (2,428 words) - 10:35, 11 March 2023
- treaty stated that Britain should have Gibraltar, Minorca, Hudson Bay, Nova ... Duchy of Milan. In addition, Spain ceded Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 15:00, 2 May 2023
- conveniently located along the strait of Gibraltar, the passage between the ... emphasis on trade gave the straits of Gibraltar and the Andalusia region ...14 KB (2,046 words) - 19:54, 26 July 2023
- In its heyday, the fort on Brimstone Hill was known as "the Gibraltar ... *King, G. H. Brimstone Hill, the Gibraltar of the West Indies. 1965. ...12 KB (1,806 words) - 23:08, 20 November 2023
- (generally thought to be the Strait of Gibraltar) and those who dwelt within ... " the name given to the Strait of Gibraltar linking the Mediterranean ...22 KB (3,236 words) - 06:23, 21 August 2023
- |Gibraltar (overseas territory of the United Kingdom)||Gibraltar |- |Greece||Athens |Guernsey (British crown dependency)||Saint Peter Port ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- [[image:Top of the Rock of Gibraltar.jpg|350px|thumb|right|The Rock ... * The Rock of Gibraltar, located at the sothernmost tip of the Iberian ...14 KB (1,944 words) - 20:16, 28 February 2023
- Villeneuve passed through the Straits of Gibraltar, rendezvoused with the ... the frigate Endymion were dispatched to Gibraltar under Rear-Admiral Louis ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- The enormous Siege of Gibraltar (1791), finished after at least 5 years' work, commemorates the bombardment of Gibraltar by the Spanish ...16 KB (2,400 words) - 07:49, 3 August 2022
- the west coast of Canada, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Bosporus, and numerous ... * The Strait of Gibraltar * The Bosporus in Turkey * The Bass Strait ...18 KB (2,762 words) - 23:26, 30 April 2023
- tunnels under both the Strait of Gibraltar and the Bering Strait. ... connecting continents: the Strait of Gibraltar tunnel connecting Western ...17 KB (2,599 words) - 00:21, 3 May 2023
- In December 1796, on leaving Elba for Gibraltar, Nelson transferred his ... After the battle Victory was then towed to Gibraltar, with Nelson ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- through the eight-mile-wide Strait of Gibraltar, which several times over ... that a strong current flowed off Gibraltar and their subsequent assumption ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 21:09, 17 April 2023
- on the North African coast across the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian Peninsula. This had profound consequences on Henry's own worldview: ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 17:47, 19 December 2017
- spent a few weeks at the Venezuelan settlement of Gibraltar on Lake Maracaibo, torturing the wealthy residents to discover hidden treasure. ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- defenses, the Vandals crossed the straights of Gibraltar and attacked the Roman army along those vulnerable borders. The invasion by the Vandals ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 06:36, 16 November 2022
- another important success as it captured Gibraltar in Spain, with the help ... and parts of the Milanese to Savoy; and Gibraltar and Minorca to Great Britain ...29 KB (4,611 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
- Deptford, Chatham, Portsmouth and Devonport), Gibraltar, Bombay, Bermuda, Hong Kong and elsewhere worldwide * Bethlehem Steel Corporation had ...13 KB (1,801 words) - 14:17, 27 January 2023
- a plan to maintain communication with Gibraltar as well as a plan of defense ... Goldeneye during the war: the defense of Gibraltar, supposing that the Spaniards ...25 KB (3,815 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- the Red Sea, across the Mediterranean, through Gibraltar, across the Bay of Biscay and the Atlantic Ocean to London. One hundred per cent profit on this ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- of Pakistan's "Operation Gibraltar" which was designed ... saboteurs. This was codenamed Operation Gibraltar.Agha Humayun Amin, [https://www ...51 KB (7,827 words) - 00:17, 28 July 2023
- republic and were blocking the Strait of Gibraltar. His request to Mussolini ... #039;s demands (food, military equipment, Gibraltar, French North Africa, etc ...40 KB (6,158 words) - 04:53, 9 April 2024
- were built in the Red River region. Fort Gibraltar was built by the North ... Fort Gibraltar, a post of the North West Company on the site of present ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- Engis, Belgium in 1829, at Forbes Quarry, Gibraltar in 1848, and most notably ... *1848: Neanderthal skull Gibraltar 1 found in Forbes' Quarry ...80 KB (11,439 words) - 04:24, 11 March 2023
- ridge was pushed up and the straits of Gibraltar closed through tectonic ... Malta's position half-way between Gibraltar and the Suez Canal proved ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- present-day Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Gibraltar, Tlemcen (in Algeria) and a great part of what is now Senegal and Mali in the south, and Spain ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 08:18, 23 July 2023
- computer-assisted paleoanthropology from the Gibraltar 2 Neanderthal specimen.]] The modern field of paleoanthropology (study of human origins ...20 KB (2,921 words) - 11:00, 11 March 2023
- *Gibraltar Island *Green Island *Gull Island *Hen Island *Johnson's Island *Kelleys Island *Little Chicken Island *Lost Ballast Island ...20 KB (3,020 words) - 23:16, 21 October 2022
- with a reputation as the "Gibraltar of the North," had to be held. Neither abandoning the fort nor garrisoning it with a small force ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- of Rocky Face Ridge (known as the "Georgian Gibraltar" by Union forces) and eastward across Crow Valley. As Sherman approached, he decided to ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 11:49, 14 November 2021
- [[Image:Gib bay.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Gibraltar. Burgess, then known ... Burgess was next stationed in Gibraltar at an army garrison (see A ...51 KB (7,981 words) - 05:23, 31 July 2023
- Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. Morocco borders Algeria to the east, the Mediterranean Sea and a ...40 KB (5,727 words) - 13:14, 10 March 2023
- In 1086 the great Almoravid invasion of Spain through and around Gibraltar began. The Almoravids, Berber residents of present-day Morocco and ...21 KB (3,514 words) - 02:49, 17 January 2023
- (U.S., UK, Ireland, Australia), Gibraltar board or gib (New Zealand—GIB being a trademark of Winstone Wallboards), rock lath, Sheetrock (a ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- raptors and storks pass through areas such as Gibraltar, Falsterbo, and the Bosphorus at migration times. By following established routes, some ...22 KB (3,318 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2023
- various ships. He also fought with Lord Howe at Gibraltar in 1782. Between 1783 and 1787, Bligh was a captain in the merchant service. ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- Forces led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad crossed Gibraltar and established Muslim ... thousand miles from its starting point in Gibraltar - to say nothing about ...68 KB (10,731 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- caused it to become known as the "Gibraltar of the North." ... and Luxembourg became known as the "Gibraltar of the North." Carved ...46 KB (6,759 words) - 03:09, 5 November 2022
- |patronage=farm and agriculture workers, Gibraltar, Queens' College, Cambridge |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} Saint Bernard ...26 KB (4,066 words) - 16:03, 29 September 2023
- also took fire during the engagement from HMS Gibraltar, under Thomas Mackenzie, which had failed to close with the enemy and instead fired at random ...60 KB (9,430 words) - 18:53, 31 December 2023
- Franco planned to invade both Portugal and Gibraltar, together with the Nazis. Portugal continued to export tungsten and other goods to both the Axis ...26 KB (3,864 words) - 20:38, 22 December 2022
- ** Calpe (modern Gibraltar) ** Gunugu ** Thenae ** Tipassa ==Language and literature== |left|250px|The Phoenicians are credited with spreading ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 04:20, 24 November 2022
- Canary Islands as a naval base, in the event of Gibraltar being invaded from the Spanish mainland. Opposition to Franco's regime did not ...28 KB (4,064 words) - 19:14, 25 November 2023
- * The World and its peoples: Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar. 1963. New York: Greystone Press. * Carrick, Noel. 1988. Andorra. New York, NY: ...26 KB (3,798 words) - 20:00, 26 July 2023
- of the ocean are Europe, the Strait of Gibraltar (where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea, one of its marginal seas, and, in turn, the Black ...27 KB (4,091 words) - 06:07, 21 August 2023
- * Garrison Library in Gibraltar, 1793. * Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University, 1924. * House of Commons Library, Westminster, London ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- (in the way that the Principality of Monaco and Gibraltar are). Many cultivated fields and small farms characterize its landscape both in the north ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- coast of the Mediterranean from the Straits of Gibraltar to Greece (with the exceptions of the Spanish controlled trading city of Oran and strategic ...28 KB (4,326 words) - 10:04, 22 September 2023
- On March 20, 1969, Lennon and Ono were married in Gibraltar and his marriage immediately assumed a place in his life far surpassing that of The ...28 KB (4,313 words) - 20:50, 1 May 2024
- Atlantic Ocean and Portugal to the west, Gibraltar to the south, the Mediterranean ... the Mediterranean side of the strait of Gibraltar, known as Plazas de soberanía ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- felt the island could potentially be the "Gibraltar of the West" because Key West guarded the northern edge of the 90 mile wide Straits ...32 KB (5,039 words) - 16:55, 7 November 2022
- first recognized overseas unit was chartered in Gibraltar in 1908, followed quickly by a unit in Malta. Scouts Canada became the first overseas dominion ...39 KB (5,942 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- they scheduled simultaneous operations against Gibraltar and Greece for the following January. However, in December 1940, German ambition in the Mediterranean ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- The Portuguese Empire was the earliest and longest lived of the modern European colonial empires. It spanned almost six centuries, from the capture ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- [[File:Battle of Gibraltar 1607.jpg|thumb|400px|Naval warfare: The explosion of the Spanish flagship during the Battle of Gibraltar, 25 April ...69 KB (10,326 words) - 23:04, 22 April 2023
- 1713. A further Franco-Spanish effort to recover Gibraltar was unsuccessful. Minorca was ceded to Spain in the peace treaty. ===Whitehaven=== ...40 KB (5,862 words) - 06:46, 25 July 2023
- Once known as the Gibraltar of the West, the defense of Bermuda remains the responsibility of the British government. Until the American Revolutionary ...36 KB (5,347 words) - 11:05, 28 September 2023
- to fight in southern Spain, mainly in Cádiz and Gibraltar with the rank of Second Captain of light infantry. He continued to fight Portugal on the side ...40 KB (6,459 words) - 01:55, 8 September 2022
- Spanish Succession (1701–1714), Spain ceded Gibraltar, Minorca, and Nova Scotia to the British and agreed to give Britain the Asiento, a valuable exclusive ...38 KB (5,601 words) - 20:08, 21 April 2023
- its maturing potency at the Battle of Gibraltar 1607), struck a blow against ... and parts of Milan to Duchy of Savoy; and Gibraltar and Minorca to the Kingdom ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- June 1944, completely denied the use of the Gibraltar Straits to Axis submarines. Airships from the ZP-12 unit took part in the sinking of the last ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- the Mediterranean and held the Straits of Gibraltar against any foreign ship ... *Serfaty, William. [http://phoenicia.org/gibraltar.html "The ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- infiltrations attempts like Operation Gibraltar that sparked the 1965 war, the branches of the Pakistan military enjoyed little coordination ...55 KB (8,309 words) - 08:36, 28 February 2023
- between Austria and Savoy, while Gibraltar and Minorca were retained by Great Britain. Louis XIV, furthermore, agreed to end his support for ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- Russian fleet at Reval (Tallinn). Meanwhile, off Gibraltar, the outnumbered French squadron under Linois rebuffed a first British attack under Saumarez ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- Danish pirates sailed through the straits of Gibraltar and raided the little Moroccan state of Nekor. The king's harem had to be ransomed back ...60 KB (9,091 words) - 22:04, 17 April 2023
- *Asad, Mohammed. Sahih-al-Buckari: The Early Years of Islam. Gibraltar: Dar-al-Andalus, 1981 (original 1932). ISBN 0317524585 *al-Azami, Muhammad ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- chosen to retain their colonial status, such as Gibraltar and French Guiana. On the other hand, colonial powers have sometimes promoted decolonization ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- British supremacy of the Mediterranean, hinged on Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. Italian troops invaded and captured British Somaliland in August ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- drive on the left except for BIOT and Gibraltar. |cctld=.ukISO 3166 ... Hudson's Bay, Nova Scotia and Gibraltar to Britain. ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- Carrier battle group, on a training exercise near Gibraltar was re-positioned towards the eastern Mediterranean to defend Israel if necessary, causing ...66 KB (10,247 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
