The Rock Against Napoleon:
The Importance of Gibraltar
to the Napoleonic Wars

Bibliography and Footnotes

by Cole H. KeKelis, USA

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Primary Sources
A. Beckford Bevan and H.B. Wolryche-Whitmore, Eds., A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman, R.N., 1793-1814. London: John Murray, 1901.
Fox, John Charles, Ed., The Official Diary of Lieutenant-General Adam Williamson: Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower of London, 1722-1747. London: Offices of the Society, 1912.
G.R. Barnes and J.H. Owen, Eds., The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich: First Lord of the Admiralty: 1771-1782, Vol. IV, London: Navy Records Society, 1988.
Huskisson, Thomas, Eyewitness to Trafalgar. London: Ellisons’ Editions, 1985.
Laprade, William Thomas, Ed., Parliamentary Papers of John Robinson: 1774-1784. London: Offices of the Society, 1922.
Las Cases, Count de, Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon, Vol. I, London: Richard Bentley, 1836.
Lavery, Brian, Ed., Shipboard Life and Organisation: 1731-1815. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 1998.

Legg, L.G. Wickham, Ed., British Diplomatic Instructions: 1689-1789, Vol. VII, France, Part IV, 1745-1789. London: Offices of the Society, 1934.
Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office, compiler, British and Foreign State Papers: 1812-1814, Vol. I, Part I. London: James Ringway and Sons, date of pulication unknown.
Naish, George P.B., Ed., Nelson’s Letters to His Wife and Other Documents: 1785- 1831. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1958.
Rose, John Holland, Ed., Select Despatches from the British Foreign Office Archives Relating to the Formation of the Third Coalition Against France: 1804-1805. London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1904.

Secondary Sources
Bradford, Ernle, The History of a Fortress: Gibraltar. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, Ltd., 1971.
Burney, William, The Naval Heroes of Great Britain. London: J.G. Barnard, 1806.
Cunliffe, John William, Ed., Robert Browning: Shorter Poems. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909.
Garratt, G.T., Gibraltar and the Mediterranean. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1939.
Gibraltar and Its Sieges. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1884.
Harvey, Maurice, Gibraltar. Staplehurst: Spellmount Limited, 1996.
Hills, George, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974.
Howes, H.W., The Story of Gibraltar. London: Philip & Tacey, Ltd., 1946.
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Jackson, Sir William G.F., The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987.
Mahan, A.T., The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1918.
McGuffie, T.H., The Siege of Gibraltar: 1779-1783. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., 1965.
Russell, Jack, Gibraltar Besieged: 1779-1783. London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1965.
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Footnotes

[1] H.W. Howes, The Story of Gibraltar, (London: Philip & Tacey, Ltd., 1946), p. 9.
[2] Ernle Bradford, The History of a Fortress: Gibraltar, (London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1971), p. 13.
[3] Treaty of Utrecht, translation, M.S. extract found in British and Foreign State Papers, 1812-1814, (London, James Ringway and Sons), 1: 611-615.
[4] John D. Stewart, Gibraltar: the Keystone, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967), pp.153-154.
[5] John D. Stewart, Gibraltar: the Keystone, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967), from title of cited work.
[6] Robert Browning, “Home-Thoughts, From the Sea,” Browning’s Shorter Poems, John William Cunliffe, Ed., (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909), pg. 42.
[7] A.T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1918), pg. 33.
[8] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), quoting Earl St. Vincent, pg. 184.
[9] Jedediah Stephens Tucker, Memoirs of Admiral the Right Hon. The Earl of St. Vincent, (London: Richard Bentley, 1844), pp. 139-140.
[10] John Holland Rose, ed., Select Despatches from the British Foreign Office Archives Relating to the Formation of the Third Coalition Against France: 1804-1805, (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 904), pp. 24-26.
[11] L.G. Wickham Legg, ed., British Diplomatic Instructions: 1689-1789, (London: Offices of the Society, 1934), 49: 193-195.
[12] A. Beckford Bevan and H.B. Wolryche-Whitmore, eds., A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman, R.N., 1793-1814, (London: John Murray, 1901), pg 216.
[13] Maurice Harvey, Gibraltar, (London: Spellmount Limited, 1996), pg. 109.
[14] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), pg. 206.
[15] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), pg. 209.
[16] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), pg. 209.
[17] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), quoting Napoleon Bonaparte, pg. 211.
[18] George Hills, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974), pp. 367-368.
[19] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pg. 212.
[20] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pg. 213.
[21] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), pg. 214.
[22] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pg. 214.
[23] Jackson, pg. 220.
[24] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pp. 220-221.
[25] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pg. 222.
[26] George Hills, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974), pg. 365.
[27] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), pg. 107.
[28] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), pg. 112.
[29] George Hills, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974), pg. 365.
[30] Oliver Warner, The Life and Letters of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), pg. 158.
[31] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), quoting Nelson, pg. 105.
[32] George P.B. Naish, ed., Nelson’s Letters to His Wife And Other Documents: 1785-1831, (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958), pg. 324.
[33] A.Beckford Bevan and H.B. Wolryche-Whitmore, eds., A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman, R.N., 1793-1814, (London: John Murray, 1901), pg. 203.
[34] Lavery, Brian, ed., Shipboard Life and Organisation: 1731-1815, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998), pg. 590.
[35] Thomas Huskisson, Eyewitness to Trafalgar, (London: Ellisons’ Editions, 1985), pp. 62-76.
[36] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and theMediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), pg. 105.
[37] A.T. Mahan, Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire, as quoted in G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), pg. 107.
[38] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), quoting Fox on pp. 101-102.
[39] George Hills, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974), pp. 360-361.
[40] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Ltd., 1987), pg. 203.
[41] William Thomas Laprade, ed., Parliamentary Papers of John Robinson: 1774-1784, (London: Offices of the Society, 1922), pp. 135-155.
[42] G.T. Garratt, Gibraltar and the Mediterranean, (New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1939), quoting A.T. Mahan, pg. 107.
[43] A.T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1918), pg. 328.
[44] Ernle Bradford, The History of a Fortress: Gibraltar, (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971), quoting Dr. Field, pg. 160.
[45] William Burney, The Naval Heroes of Great Britain, (London: J.G. Barnard, 1806), pg. 77.
[46] Thomas Huskisson, Eyewitness to Trafalgar, (London: Ellisons’ Editions, 1985), pp. 63-75.
[47] Count de Las Cases, Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations, of the Emperor Napoleon, in four volumes, (London: Richard Bentley, 1836), 1: 308.
[48] Sir William G.F. Jackson, The Rock of the Gibraltarians: A History of Gibraltar, (London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1987), pg. 211.
[49] John Charles Fox, ed., The Official Diary of Lieutenant-General Adam Williamson, Deputy-Lieutenant of the Tower of London: 1722, 1747, (London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1912), pg. 47.
[50] Jack Russell, Gibraltar Besieged: 1779-1783, (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1965), pg.1.
[51] T.H. McGuffie, The Siege of Gibraltar: 1779-1783, (London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd.,1965),pg.14.
[52] G.R. Barnes and J.H. Owen, eds., The Private Papers of John, Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty: 1771-1782, (London: for the Navy Records Society, 1988), Vol. 4: 318.
[53] Gibraltar and Its Sieges, (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1884), pg. 158, author not listed.
[54] George Hills, Rock of Contention: A History of Gibraltar, (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1974), pg. 365.

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