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Aden, "The Gibraltar of the Red Sea", 1844. Creator: Stephen Sly.

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Aden, "The Gibraltar of the Red Sea", 1844. View of the geographically strategic port of Aden in the Yemen. Caleb Cushing, United States Ambassador to China, commented: 'In taking possession of Aden, in Arabia,...the English Government has recently acquired a very important military post on the southern shores of Arabia, near to the Straits of Babelmandel, which commands the Red Sea and the Sea of Arabia, as Gibraltar does the Mediterranean and a portion of the Atlantic'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.

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HRM21A06_311

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40,9Mo (3,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 24,4cm / 4960 x 2884 (300dpi)

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