GIBRALTAR,

Gibraltar constitutional history:  Gibraltar was captured by British from Spain in 1704, and held through several major sieges. It became a Colony in 1830. Britain has consistently rejected Spanish claims to the strategic territory.

Minorca constitutional history: Minorca was captured by the British in 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession, and retained under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The island was captured by the French in 1756 and ceded back to Britain in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War. Britain returned Minorca to Spain in 1783 as part of the settlement of the American War of Independence.