The latest addition had me foxed.

Apparently "The Great Siege" was from 1719-1783. So ...
Why were "we" bothered about "1704-2004" when Gib didn't become "Ours" until "....the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713...."?
Well, apparently it was nicked from Spain in 1713.
Oh BTW I didn't know all this, I just searched it coz the dates boggled the olde mind.

Apparently The aforementioned Treaty "......formally ceded Gibraltar (along with Minorca) to the British in perpetuity."

So there.

BTW Mk ii. It's not a Brit quid, it's Gibraltarian ;¬))

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