Jacob van Heemskerk died at a Dutch victory here during the Eighty Years' War.
This location's sanitation was improved by its governor George Don, who also started its first police force and rebuilt St. Bernard's Hospital. Jacob van Heemskerk died at a Dutch victory here during the Eighty Years' War. A failed siege of this location in 1727 led to the construction of a contravallation line which is now the site of a town named after the Immaculate Conception. At a later siege of this location, George Augustus (*) Eliot successfully defended a garrison here from French and Spanish forces. It also suffered two sieges during the Reconquista, the first of which led to the exile of the Sultan of Granada, Muhammed III. Diego Salinas surrendered this location to the Anglo-Dutch forces of George Rooke during the War of the Spanish Succession, and along with Minorca it was eventually ceded to Britain by Spain under the Treaty of Utrecht. For 10 points, name this location in southern Spain, one of the legendary Pillars of Hercules.
This location's sanitation was improved by its governor George Don, who also started its first police force and rebuilt St. Bernard's Hospital.
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