High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Capture of Gibraltar by the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance occurred between 1–3 August 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Since the beginning of the war the Allies had been looking for a harbour in the Iberian Peninsula to control the Strait of Gibraltar and facilitate naval operations against the French fleet in the western Mediterranean Sea. An attempt to seize Cadiz had ended in failure in September 1702, but following the Allied fleet success at Vigo Bay in October that year the 'Maritime Powers' had emerged as the dominant naval force in the region. This strength helped persuade King Peter II of Portugal to sever his alliance with France and Spain, and ally himself with the Grand Alliance in 1703. Now with access to the Portuguese port of Lisbon the Allied fleets could campaign in the Mediterranean, and conduct operations in support of the Austrian Habsburg candidate to the Spanish throne, the Archduke Charles,...

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