| The Hannibal was unable to join them, and reanchored at Algeciras. |
| In the course of his rambling operations, Algeciras and Malaga were the only places where Riego was at all well received. |
| By the time he was fourteen he was a full fledged docker staggering under the crates his boyish frame hauled from the ships unloading at Algeciras. |
| The city receives high numbers of ferries each day from Algeciras in Andalusia in the south of Spain, along with Melilla and the Canary Islands. |
| The massive naval harbour that bites into Algeciras Bay was a Victorian achievement, that was only properly completed in the 1900's after which the dry docks were laid down. |
| Algeciras had become a fortress of great strength and magnificence, and Gibraltar was a mere sort of outlying post. |
