Grand Casemates Gates - Gibraltar - Wikipedia Entries on Waymarking.com

"The Grand Casemates Gates were formerly called Waterport Gate or Water Gate (Puerta de Mar in Spanish) because for many years a gate provided access from the sea into the northwest of the town through the defensive wall that ran along the shore of the bay of Gibraltar."

"The Moors occupied Gibraltar for centuries until Ferdinand IV of Castile took Gibraltar in the 1309 siege. In 1333 the Moors retook Gibraltar after a lengthy siege. The Spanish regained Gibraltar in August 1462 during its eighth siege. In 1704, during the War of the Spanish Succession, a combined Anglo-Dutch force captured the town of Gibraltar. In 1713 Spain ceded the Rock to the British "in perpetuity". Over the years that followed the British made extensive improvements to the defenses."

The inscriptions on the Gates read:

Grand Casemated Gates
on site of
Water Gate

and

Lieutenant General
Sir John Adye R.A. G.C.B.
Governor
1884

and

General
John Earl of Chatam KG
Governor
1824

Lieutenant General Sir John Adye was Governor of Gibraltar from 1883 to 1886 and General John Earl of Chatam from 1820 to 1835.

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