Note 34 — Chapter III · GIBRALTAR OF THE MOORS.
Reading edition
The following is only suggested as a rough guess:—
Ordinary expenditure during ninety years of peace £18,000,000
Extraordinary expenditure during fifty-five years of war 22,000,000
Sieges, including expenses of fleets for its defence, vessels for its supply, loss of ships to the enemy, &c. 10,000,000
Fortifications 5,000,000
£55,000,000