Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 Jacobite rising came within striking distance of toppling the Hanoverian monarchy — his forces reached Derby before a retreat that ended at Culloden in April 1746. Gibraltar, seized by Britain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, remained fiercely loyal to the Crown throughout; the irony of the Rock commemorating the man who nearly ended that Crown's dynasty is not lost on serious collectors.
Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1745 Jacobite rising came within striking distance of toppling the Hanoverian monarchy — his forces reached Derby before a retreat that ended at Culloden in April 1746. Gibraltar, seized by Britain in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession, remained fiercely loyal to the Crown throughout; the irony of the Rock commemorating the man who nearly ended that Crown's dynasty is not lost on serious collectors.