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    The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (Spanish: Batalla del Cabo de San Vicente) was a naval battle that took place off the southern coast of Portugal on 16 January...
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    the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780). In August 1780, a Spanish fleet (along with French ships), defeated a small British fleet in the action of 9 August...
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  • Battle of Cape St. Vincent may refer to: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1337), a victory of a Castilian fleet over a Portuguese fleet during the brief Luso-Castilian...
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  • involvement in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) (against the Spanish fleet) and the Battle of St. Kitts and the Glorious First of June (both against...
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    Spanish ship San Agustín (1768) (category Ships of the line of the Spanish Navy)
    squadron, with 18 ships of the line. The result was the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), off the stormy, dark cliffs of Cape Santa María through the...
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  • Civil War Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) – American Revolutionary War Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) – French Revolutionary Wars Battle of Caporetto...
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    HMS Prince George (1772) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    011 lb) guns to her quarterdeck. In 1780, Prince George was part of Rodney's fleet at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. On 12 April 1782 she was seventh in...
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  • Navy captured at the battle of Cape St Vincent (1780); she was sold in 1794 for breaking up. HMS Diligent (1781) was a schooner of eight guns that served...
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  • to end Iroquois involvement Action of 8 January 1780 - British victory off Venezuela Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) 16 January – British fleet under...
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    known for his victory at the 1797 Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, from which he earned his titles, and as a patron of Horatio Nelson. Jervis was also recognised...
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    faster ships to avoid these situations such as that of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent – the Moonlight Battle – two years before, when Rodney's coppered 18-ship...
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    Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet. February 19 – The legislature of New York votes...
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    HMS Resolution (1770) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780), Battle off Halifax (1780), the Battle of the Chesapeake (1781), Battle of Fort Royal (1781) and the Battle of the...
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  • War Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) – 1780 – American Revolutionary War Action of 24 February 17801780 – American Revolutionary War Action of 9 August...
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  • (launched 26 February 1749) - Captured by Britain at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, 16 January 1780, renamed HMS Gibraltar, BU 1836 Rayo (San Pedro Apostol)...
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  • The southern strategy: Britain's conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775-1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-573-9...
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    Luis de Córdova y Córdova (category Captain generals of the Navy)
    between 1780 and 1782, including the capture of 55 ships from a convoy composed of Indiamen, and other cargo ships 60 leagues off Cape St. Vincent. In 1782...
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    several days before Rodney's engagement and defeat of a Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. One of Spain's principal goals upon its entry into the...
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    Thomas Frederick (Royal Navy officer) (category Royal Navy personnel of the American Revolutionary War)
    long blockade off Toulon. While in command he saw action at the Battle of Cape Saint Vincent, where the outnumbered British squadron under Sir John Jervis...
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    HMS Victory (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    flagship at Cape Spartel and Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent. After 1824, she was relegated to the role of harbour ship. In 1922, she was moved to a dry...
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  • January – American Revolutionary War: British naval victory at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent led by Admiral Sir George Rodney over a Spanish squadron. The...
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  • texte; Vaissette, Joseph (1685-1756) Auteur du texte; Du Mège, Alexandre (1780-1862) Auteur du texte (1840–1846). Histoire générale de Languedoc : avec...
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  • 1780 in the United States. President of the Second Continental Congress: Samuel Huntington January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St...
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    himself while in command of HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Shortly after that battle, Nelson took part in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife...
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    The Battle of the Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes or simply the Battle of the Capes, was a crucial naval battle in the American...
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    George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (category British MPs 1780–1784)
    Siege and defeated a Spanish fleet during the 1780 Battle of Cape St. Vincent, known as the "Moonlight Battle" because it took place at night. He then was...
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    at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in January 1780 before being landed at Gibraltar later that month and then taking part in the Great Siege of Gibraltar;...
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    HMS Barfleur (1768) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    John Jervis at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. In 1805, under Captain George Martin, she was part of the Channel Fleet. Her final battle was fought in a squadron...
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    Richard Goodwin Keats (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    correspondence of John, Earl of St. Vincent. London: H. Colburn. p. 319. Hannah. p. 142 Brenton, E.P. (1838). Life and Correspondence of John, Earl St. Vincent. London:...
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    The Battle of Camden (August 16, 1780), also known as the Battle of Camden Court House, was a major victory for the British in the Southern theater of the...
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