The First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747) was waged during the War of the Austrian Succession. It refers to the attack by 14 British ships of the...
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Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747), 14 May 1747 victory for a British fleet over the French Second Battle of Cape Finisterre, 25 October 1747 victory for a...
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second battle of Cape Finisterre was a naval encounter fought during the War of the Austrian Succession on 25 October 1747 (N.S.). A British fleet of fourteen...
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several naval battles took place near the Cape. Notable battles include the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession...
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at Cape Finisterre in October 1747 left the French unable to defend their merchant shipping. The stalemate resulted in the October 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle...
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until more than 200 years later. May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet. June...
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François Joseph Paul de Grasse (category Counts of France)
He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake in 1781 in the last year of the American Revolutionary War. It...
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Edward Boscawen (category British MPs 1741–1747)
the Channel.: 185 In 1747 Boscawen was ordered to join Admiral Anson and took an active part in the first Battle of Cape Finisterre.: 290 : 186 The British...
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then captured again in the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) before finally being captured in Alcide. In the foreground of this painting, the Defiance...
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HMS Invincible (section Battle honours)
of the line L'Invincible, captured off Cape Finisterre in 1747. She was the first purpose-built 74-gun ship of the line to serve in the Royal Navy. The...
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George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (redirect from George Anson, Baron Anson of Soberton)
at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession. Anson went on to be First Lord of the Admiralty during the Seven...
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Terrible. At the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747) during the War of the Austrian Succession, Invincible was escorting a convoy of merchant ships...
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Philip Saumarez (category 1747 deaths)
were realised. Captain Saumarez was killed in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre while captain of HMS Nottingham under Rear-Admiral Edward Hawke, 1st Baron...
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1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre, wrecked 1758 Isis 50 (1747) – ex-French Le Diamant 56 captured 3 May 1747 at First Battle of Cape Finisterre...
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Events from the year 1747 in Austria Monarch – Maria Theresa May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: British victory over...
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Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath)
fortress of Louisbourg, leading a blockade which led to the garrison capitulating on 28 June. Warren participated in the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in...
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Biscay in the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747. Hawke went on to achieve a victory over a French fleet at the Battle of Quiberon Bay in November...
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la Bourdonnais 1747 May 14 1st Cape Finisterre – British under Anson defeat French under de Jonquières 25 October 2nd Cape Finisterre – British under...
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1737–1741, who lost his right hand in a sea battle in 1697. William Banks, MP for Grampound 1741–1747, who lost use of legs after an illness in 1745. Frederick...
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HMS Ambuscade (section Battle honours)
formerly the French ship Embuscade, captured in 1746. She fought off Cape Finisterre, captured the privateer Vainqueen and fought with Boscawen against...
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the power of the Scottish clans. 14 May – War of the Austrian Succession: First Battle of Cape Finisterre: British fleet is victorious against the French...
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Father Le Loutre's War (category Military history of Acadia)
previous war, King George's War—see First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747). On May 22, 1755, the British commanded a fleet of three warships and thirty-three...
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Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer) (category British MPs 1747–1754)
Gloucester and led her in action at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre in October 1747 during the War of the Austrian Succession. After serving as Commander-in-Chief...
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Western Squadron (category Military history of the English Channel)
squadron was involved at the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747), the Battle of Quiberon Bay (1756), and the Battle of Ushant (1778). By 1801 its main...
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John Lockhart-Ross (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
1747. Devonshire was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Peter Warren, under whom Lockhart saw action at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre on 3 May 1747....
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by Pierre Morineau) – captured by the British in the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in May 1747 and added to the RN under the same name, wrecked in February...
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(launched 8 August 1771 at Havana) - Captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, 22 July 1805, retaining same name, sold 1810 Nuestra Señora de...
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64-gun third-rate ship of the line, previously the French ship Trident, captured in 1747 at the Second battle of Cape Finisterre and sold in 1763. HMS Trident (1768)...
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at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747. After being renamed and refitted by the Royal Navy, she entered British service in late 1747. Between...
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HMS Anson (1781) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
part of the expanded order, named after George Anson, 1st Baron Anson[citation needed], the victorious admiral of the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)...
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