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In the British public's imagination, Gibraltar was seen as "a symbol of British naval power [and] a symbol of the empire that has been built and, more than the British lion or even John Bull himself, has come to represent Britain's power and prestige across the world." [159]
Klimeš, Roman Gibraltar (2011): The Rock with its own Symbols. Proceedings of the 24th International Congress of Vexillology 2011. P. 676 HM Gibraltar Government official logo since 2014
1711 – The British government, then in the hands of the Tories, covertly ordered the British Gibraltar governor, Thomas Stanwix, to expel any foreign (not British) troops (to foster Great Britain's sole right to Gibraltar in the negotiations running up between Britain and France). Although he answered positively, he allowed a Dutch regiment ...
The Gibraltar Government has also argued that Gibraltar is a British territory and therefore by definition not an integral part of any other state, implying that Spain's territorial integrity cannot be affected by anything that occurs in Gibraltar: "Even if integration of a territory was demanded by an interested State it could not be had ...
The post in Gibraltar is currently run by the Royal Gibraltar Post Office which in 2005 was granted the title of "Royal" by Her Majesty the Queen. [2] Gibraltar is now the only Commonwealth or British Overseas Territory outside the United Kingdom that bears this distinction. [2] The Gibraltar Post Office is now known as the Royal Gibraltar Post ...
Baron Heathfield of Gibraltar, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. [3] It was created on 6 July 1787 for General Sir George Augustus Eliott in recognition of his defence of Gibraltar during the Franco-Spanish Siege of 1779 to 1783.
The coat of arms of the government of Gibraltar combines that of His Majesty's Government and Gibraltar's own coat of arms.. Today, the official coat of arms as used by the government of Gibraltar consists of the original coat of arms with the addition of the motto Montis Insignia Calpe ("Insignia of the Mountain of Calpe"; Mons Calpe was the Latin name of the Rock of Gibraltar), which was ...