gibraltar

When France and Spain joined the American Revolutionary War, they weren't in it out of simple altruism. They wanted to make gains at Britain's expense. One of Spain's primary war aims was the recapture of Gibraltar, lost to Great Britain during the War of the Spanish Succession. So in June 1779...

In a scenario where the military uprising in the summer of 1936 is more disjointed and eventually falters and then collapses in on itself after a period of Civil War in Spain, what would happen to Spain in 1940 following the Nazi occupation of France? Let's say, for the sake of the scenario, the...

Suppose Operation Felix happened, either because Franco was more willing to join the war or because Canaris wasn't working against the Nazis. Could this have led to the Axis taking Gibraltar? If they did, how would that have hurt the British and Allied war effort?

Be it pre-1900 or after, the UK decides - to improve relations with Spain (or bribe it to do something) to swap Gibraltar for Ceuta. Or maybe, post WWI (WWII?), Britain deems Gibraltar simply too small - not enough space for naval facilities, stores, staging ground for troops, airfields...

IOTL, Spain joined France and the USA in 1779, during the American Revolutionary war. They were more attracted to the war on the issue of taking advantage of Britain's distraction than on the issue of aiding the revolutionaries. The best known pitched battle involving Spain during the ARW was...

How could a reverse Gibraltar (Spain has a tiny piece of the UK) happen? And what would be the effects of a reverse Gibraltar?