1704: Blenheim, Gibraltar and the Making of a Great Power
Jeremy Black recalls two events, 300 years ago this summer, that heralded the emergence of Britain as a Continental power.
This is a year of many anniversaries. In June we commemorated D-Day, 1944; this month is the ninetieth anniversary of the start of the First World War and September will be sixty-five years since the start of the Second. There are other, more distant anniversaries that recall key successes in Britain’s rise to the status of great power, two of the most important of which occurred exactly three centuries ago.
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