Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar
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The <entity_1> was fought between <entity_4> and <entity_8> during the <entity_0>. It followed the <entity_2> of the fortified town of <entity_7>, at the southern tip of Spain, by an Anglo–<entity_10> naval force led by Sir George Rooke and Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt. The members of the Grand Alliance, <entity_3>, <entity_9>, the Netherlands, Pro-Habsburg Spain, Portugal and the Savoy, had allied to prevent the unification of the French and Spanish thrones by supporting the claim of the Habsburg pretender Archduke Charles VI of Austria as Charles III of Spain. At the start of the <entity_11>, <entity_7> was garrisoned by around 2,000 <entity_10>, English, Austrian and pro-Habsburg Spanish troops facing a besieging force of up to 8,000 French, pro-Bourbon Spanish and Irish troops. Its possibilities were recognised immediately by the Alliance forces' leader Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt, who told Charles in a letter of <entity_4>, that <entity_7> was "a door through which to enter Spain". They were supported by Sir George Rooke's Anglo-<entity_10> fleet consisting of 51 ships of the line operating in the Strait of <entity_7>. The Anglo-<entity_10> fleet was hampered by a shortage of shot and gunpowder, much of which had already been used in bombarding <entity_7> during the operation to capture it, and Sir George Byng's squadron was forced to pull back when it ran out of ammunition. The rest of the fleet was dangerously low on ammunition but fortunately for the confederates, the French withdrew the following day, leaving the Anglo-<entity_10> fleet to limp back to <entity_7>. After the <entity_11> George of Hesse left <entity_7> and took command of the conquest of Barcelona. Stanwix was ordered to expel all foreign troops from <entity_7> to secure its status as an exclusively British possession but failed to evict the <entity_10>, apparently not considering them "foreign". The <entity_5> which took place during the Anglo-Spanish war, and <entity_6> during the American Revolutionary War being the largest and longest from 1779-83.
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