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You can do this really interesting tour that will explain all this history of the rock. Anyway, the rumour is probably not true but it does make the place seems a bit more mysterious. Who knows what secret bunkers have been built in the tunnels? Who knows if this is true but there are all sorts of stories of people going missing down in the caves and never being seen again. One of the versions of the legend says that the apes in Gibraltar came from Africa and must have come through a tunnel.
Firstly, it should be noted that they are actually macaques, even though they are usually referred to as Barbary apes. Although they are an iconic part of the territory, they came very close to being wiped out.
During the Second World War there were just 7 of them left but the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, ordered that new ones be brought across from North Africa to replenish the colony. Now there are about of them wandering around the rock, stealing food from unsuspecting tourists. There are some great tours that will take you to the monkeys and also show you all around the rock and some of the other important sights in Gibraltar.
General Eliott was the Governor at this time; he had arrived at the Rock in and showed himself to be a great leader and planner. As an example to his men he lived on 4 ounces of rice a day when the siege was at its height.
It was during this siege that a Lieutenant Koehler solved the problem of how to fire the cannons from a steep angle of depression, from high up on the Rock down onto the besieging forces. Lieutenant Shrapnel, another of the garrison at that time, developed the ammunition that still bears his name.
The numerous tunnels that are still in use today were the responsibility of a Sergeant-Major Ince, and these tunnels made it possible for the guns to bear down onto the Mediterranean shore. Sergeant-Major Ince may have made better tunnels than he realised as they were used for the same purpose, gun emplacements, in the Second World War, and were invaluable to the Allied Forces. The British had between 5, and 7, men and only 96 guns during the Great Siege , and the Spanish and French forces numbered 40, men and guns.
Gibraltar has always been part of British history.
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