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Richard Paton; John Boydell : [The Brave and Gallant Defence of Gibraltar from the Exterior and Interior.] To Gen. Sir Geo. Elliot, Lieut. Gen. Boyd, Gen. Lamotte, Major Gen. Greene, Sir Roger Curtis the Officers, Soldiers and Sailors

John Boydell, London, 1784

Copper Engraving, Image Size : 450x650 (mm), 17.72x25.59 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 560x730 (mm), 22.05x28.74 (Inches), Black & White, Very Good, plates are mounted on stiff publisher's paper and backed by acid free tissue paper for long term preservation.

Important and scarce pair of British Naval prints.
This representation of the brave and gallant defence of Gibraltar, against the united force of Spain and France, on the 14th Sept. 1782 for which important service done their country they received the thanks of both houses of Parliament. Is humbly inscribed by their most humble servant.
From 1779 to 1782 Gibraltar sustained a siege at the hands of a combined French and Spanish force. In the course of the siege the garrison under General Elliot , afterwards Lord Heathfield, was several times reinforced and victualled by British fleets which ran the gauntlet of the blockade. In September 1782, the allies contemplated a grand attack on the fortress before it could be again relieved, and a great force of vessels was mustered in Algeciras Bay. A violent gale of wind which sprung up on the 10th drove some of the fleet from their moorings; one vessel, the San Miguel, being forced under the batteries of Gibraltar, where she had to surrender. On September 13 the intended attack was made. The Spanish floating batteries, from which so much had been expected, were all set on fire and destroyed by Sir Roger Curtis, and the remaining ships of the combined fleet returned to Algeciras.

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