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By Jason R. Musteen
Nelson’s Refuge examines Gibraltar’s progress in the course of the decade fight with Napoleonic France. As a ahead base for the operations of the Royal army and military, the peninsula allowed Horatio Nelson to accomplish his victories on the Nile and at Trafalgar. The booklet additionally describes how Gibraltar served because the base of mystery negotiations that introduced Spain to the British aspect through the Peninsular struggle and additional served because the so much ahead operations base for the British in that war.
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