Existing comment:
"This pile of rocks called Gibraltar, which gives them nothing except worries and expenses."
-- Conde de Floridablanca, 1778
* Floridablanca proposed to negotiate a truce between France and Great Britain in exchange for Gibraltar
* Britain refused, thereby sacrificing America for "this pile of rocks"
* Spain declares war on Britain in April 1779
* Allied French and Spanish forces prepare for battle, changing the war from a regional conflict to global conflagration
* "If we are saved, France and Spain must save us" (Alexander Hamilton) |