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	Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The naval Battle of Cape St Vincent took place on 14 February 1797, near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal, between a British fleet and a Spanish fleet and was an important battle during the Wars of the French Revolution.
		The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797 by Robert Cleveley
		On February 6, Jervis was joined off Cape St. Vincent by a reinforcement of five ships of the line from the Channel Fleet under Rear-Admiral William Parker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1797) (1582 words)

	HMS Colossus (1787) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the battle, Colossus, under the command of Captain George Murrary, a close friend of Admiral Nelson, sustained serious damage, her sails being virtually shot away.
		In the aftermath of the Battle of the Nile, Colossus was used as a transport, ferrying wounded soldiers from both sides, as well as captured treasure during the battle.
		On December 10, 1798, while HMS Colossus was anchored at St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, a strong gale occurred, her anchor cable parted and the ship ran aground.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Colossus_(1787) (816 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Battle of Cape St. Vincent. 14th. of February 1793-
		Battle of St. Vincent, Cape St Vincent, Cartagena, The straits of Gibraltar and Cadiz.
		The Battle of Cape St.Vincent was well and truly won through flair, boldness, courage, and the quick action of Nelson to block the Spanish windward ships, and thus prevent them from joining up with their colleagues and escaping to Cadiz.
		He was to become Earl St Vincent, after the victory of the British ships at the Battle of St. Vincent.
	www.ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/BattleofCapeSt.Vincent.14.html (1998 words)

	AlmaVerde Village & Spa - Luxury villas and Apartments in the Western Algarve
		Many sea battles have been fought off this cape, and it was Horatio Nelson& dramatic action in the 1797 battle of Cape St. Vincent that secured victory and helped to establish his reputation as one of England& greatest naval heroes.
		The cape is named after St. Vincent, a young deacon in Saragossa during the time of the Roman persecution of Christian clergy.
		Vincent was cruelly tortured by the proconsul Dacian, then governor of Spain, but bore his repeated torments with such equanimity that Dacian wept with rage and frustration.
	www.almaverde.com /costa_vicentina.html (1249 words)

	The sea battle off Cape St Vincent (Saint Vincent)
		Nelson was knighted after the battle; Jervis was made Earl St Vincent, two other admirals were made baronets and one given an Irish peerage.
		The Spanish fleet had already shown its unwillingness to venture northward from its own waters: the Battle of St. Vincent made it even more sure they would be unwilling to risk repeating the 1588 story of the Armada.
		Ironically, had she been captured, there was no British dockyard big enough to receive her for repairs: instead she was able to fight again, at Trafalgar.
	www.cleverley.org /navy/stvincentbattle.html (827 words)

	Royal Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1782 Battle of St. Kitts and Battle of the Saintes
		During the First World War it fought several battles; Battle of Heligoland Bight, Battle of Coronel, Battle of the Falkland Islands, Battle of Dogger Bank and Dardanelles Campaign but the Battle of Jutland is the most well known.
		It was revived by King Athelstan and at the time of his victory at the Battle of Brunanburh in 937, the English navy had a strength of approximately 400 ships.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Navy (3896 words)

	Cape St Vincent : Battle of Cape St Vincent : Horatio Nelson : Napoleon Guide :
		The battle began in earnest and after an exchange of broadsides the Spanish were prevented from turning back to rejoin battle by the bravery and foresight of Horatio Nelson.
		The Spanish were in a 20-mile line with plenty of space between each vessel so Jervis sailed through and split the leading 18 ships off from the rest of the fleet.
		By the battle's end, four Spanish ships had been taken and 3000 men lost.
	www.napoleonguide.com /battle_stvincen.htm (265 words)

	The battle of Cape St Vincent
		The year also marked the rise to fame of Horatio Nelson whose dramatic actions at the Battle of Cape St Vincent secured victory.
		It witnessed two of the Navy& greatest victories, St Vincent in February and Camperdown in October.
		Yet between these battles the navy passed through a serious crisis of fleet mutinies at Spithead and the Nore.
	www.ndstory.com /cape/battle.html (222 words)

	1797 - Simple English Wikipedia
		February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
		Years: 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796- 1797 - 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802
		He is later fined £50 for causing public nuisance
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/1797 (392 words)

	Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Navy
		Sir John Jervis was another redoubtable seaman, and when in 1797 he commanded the English fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, he rose to the occasion with distinction.
		In February 1797 Jervis was patrolling England's long-time favourite hunting g ground, the waters off that rocky headland at the south-western tip of Portugal known as Cape St Vincent.
		It was a battle reminiscent of David and Goliath with Jervis outnumbered two to one.
	www.trafalgar200th.com /victory.asp (1476 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		A lieutenant from 1797, he was present at the battle of Cape St Vincent that year, and saw further service off Ireland and in the North Sea.
		It is said that the clergy and choir of St Paul’s Church ran down George Street in their cassocks and surplices to see the ships.
		He could not stand the strain and died on 2 Jan. 1841, being buried in St Martin’s Church in Nacton seven days later.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37390 (692 words)

	Marine Divers' Recovery Of 18th Century Warship 25 Oct 2002
		Her last naval engagement was at the Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797), during the course of which she was badly damaged.
		The Battle of the Nile in August 1798 was a major strategic victory for the British and provided a welcome breathing space.
		Lady Emma Hamilton, William's wife, was to become Nelson's mistress during the period following the Battle of the Nile.
	calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk /external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=386 (1202 words)

	BHC0486 : The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797
		The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797
		This painting is one of a pair with BHC0485, showing the Battle of St Vincent, 14 February 1797.
		Early in 1797, however, the French and Spanish fleets were separated without having followed up their advantage.
	www.nmm.ac.uk /mag/pages/mnuExplore/PaintingDetail.cfm?ID=BHC0486 (451 words)

	Sea Room:home page .
		The great battles of St Vincent, the Nile and Copenhagen spring to life, as do the achievements of the British blockading fleet off the French coast in the months and years before the victory at Trafalgar-a victory so decisive and devastating that it put an end to war at sea for a century.
		But the battle itself was only the decisive event in a campaign of many months--the outcome of which would determine the future of the Mediterranean and the whole strategic situation in Europe.
		FATAL VICTORY is a detailed look at one of the most important battles in history, where the British Navy commanded by Nelson dealt a resounding defeat to the combined forces of France and Spain, ending Napoleon's dream of invading England.
	www.sea-room.com /topic-page/horatio-nelson.html (4464 words)

	TROUBRIDGE - LoveToKnow Article on TROUBRIDGE
		Having seen some service in the East Indies, he was taken prisoner by the French in 1794, but his captivity was only a short one and in February 1797 he commanded his ship, the" Culloden," at the battle of Cape St Vincent.
		1852), entered the navy in 1797 and was present at the battle of Copenhagen.
		He then served in the Mediterranean and was created a baronet in 1799; from 1801 to 1804 he was a lord of the admiralty, being made a rear-admiral just before his retirement.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TROUBRIDGE.htm (442 words)

	Seaport Autographs - seaportautographs.htm - norm@seaportautographs.com
		In 1797 he distinguished himself at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
		Its inadequate navy was forced to sea on Feb. 14, 1797, under the command of Don José Códoba and consisted of 26 sail of the line.
		Poussielque was “Comptroller General of the Expense of the Eastern Army and Administrator General of the Finance.” He was with Napoleon’s army, on land, when the French fleet was anchored along the coast 15 miles northeast of Alexandria at the Rosetta mouth of the Nile River.
	www.seaportautographs.com /military.htm (1282 words)

	Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design
		He had entered the navy in 1770, lost his right eye at Calvi in Corsica in 1794, taken a prominent part in the battle of Cape St Vincent in 1797, and lost his right arm at Santa Cruz in the same year.
		Other later battles took their toll on the links, for, at the outbreak of World War II in 1939; the nine-hole course was taken over by the Ministry of Defense.
		Included are, of course, St Andrews, whose first Provost, in the 12 th century, was Mainard Fleming, and Crail, whose north barns came to be called “Kingsbarns.” The main authority on Scottish surnames, Black, begins his entry on “Fleming with: “a surname sufficiently indicative of the nationality of its original bearers.”
	www.kylephillips.com /news_kb_history_hist.html (772 words)

	Battle of Cape St. Vincent - February 14th 1797
		Vincent College, Gosport, to commemorate the bi-centenary of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent - February 14th 1797
		February 14th 1997 marked the bicentenary of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, the first of the important series of Horatio Nelson's naval victories leading up to the bicentennial of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005.
		At the battle Admiral Sir John Jervis (later Earl St. Vincent) led a squadron of 15 sail against a numerically far superior Spanish fleet.
	www.stvincent.ac.uk /1797 (500 words)

	Nelson
		He was invested with the K.B. in 1797 after losing an arm in a fight off Tenerife, soon after the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in which he also fought, and he was installed in that order in 1803.
		Nelson was granted, in 1797, as a mark of his distinguished service, the arms of the Nelson family of Lancashire which were registered in the Visitation of Lancashire in 1664.
		At the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 he heavily defeated the Danish Fleet, and was rewarded by being made Viscount Nelson of the Nile and of Hilborough (Norfolk).
	www.norfolkheraldry.co.uk /awebpages/Nelson.htm (830 words)

	Wargamer - Warfare in the Age of Sail - NelsonWeb - Article Credits
		Cape St Vincent: Nelson boarding the San Jose at the battle of Cape St Vincent, 14 February 1797; George Jones (NMM)
		Trafalgar: The battle of Trafalgar; Clarkson Stanfield (NMM)
		Battle of the Nile: The battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798; Nicholas
	www.wargamer.com /aos/nelsonweb-ac.asp (594 words)

	Battle of Cape St Vincent
		The Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797 by Thomas Buttersworth
		HMS Captain at the Battle of Cape St Vincent by Ivan Berryman
		After the battle the Spanish had lost 4 ships and 3,000 prisoners were taken without the loss of any British warship and only 300 casualties.
	www.naval-art.com /cape_st_vincent.htm (1214 words)

	Battles.txt
		ST VINCENT:- The Battle of Cape St Vincent took place on 14th February 1797 when the British Commander was Admiral Sir John Jervis (later Earl St Vincent).
		NILE:- This battle took place at Aboukir Bay a few miles northv east of Alexandria in Egypt on 1st August 1798 when the British Commander was Rear Admiral Sir H. Nelson.
		NAVARINO:- The battle of Navarino was fought between a combined fleet of British, French and Russian ships against a combined force of Turkish & Egyptian vessels on 20th October 1827.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/Trafalgar/Battles.txt (337 words)

	S - Spanish ships, San José (later HMS San Josef) and Santissima Trinidad : Lord Nelson, Vice-Admiral Horatio Trafalgar Day Night Dinner - SeaBritain 2005
		At the Battle of Cape St Vincent (14 February 1797), where she was the flagship of the Spanish commander in chief, Teniente General José de Córdoba, she came under attack from at least five British battleships including, briefly, Commodore Nelson in HMS Captain.
		On 14 February 1797, she formed part of the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape St Vincent, when she flew the flag of Rear Admiral Don Francisco Winthuysen.
		At the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805), flying the flag of Rear Admiral Don Baltazar de Cisneros, she was once again set upon by a concentration of British ships and eventually surrendered to HMS Neptune, commanded by Nelson's close friend Captain Thomas Fremantle.
	www.seabritain2005.com /server.php?show=ConWebDoc.370 (873 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		In the fleet under Sir John Jervis, Waldegrave, as third in command, took part in the battle of Cape St Vincent off the Portuguese coast on 14 Feb. 1797, and was offered a baronetcy for his role in the victory.
		Soon after his arrival in the summer of 1797, the governor found that a mutiny in the British fleet had spread to Newfoundland, and a dangerous uprising among seamen on the Latona had to be put down.
		Yet official reluctance to concede that Newfoundland was becoming a colony comme les autres persisted, and Waldegrave maintained the age-old restrictions against building houses and issued proclamations against dieters (as servants who stayed over the winter were termed).
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37307 (1129 words)

	Nelson at Cape St Vincent and Tenerife
		On the morning of 14th February 1797, the position of the fleets was some twenty five miles west of the Portugese headland of St. Vincent about one hundred and fifty miles north west of Cadiz, towards which the Spanish fleet were heading in fair wind but poor sailing order.
		For his part in the Battle of St. Vincent he received the Order of the Bath, and also was given the freedom of the cities of London, Bath, Bristol and Norwich.
		During the battle Nelson received a superficial wound from a shell splinter and was bruised; the entry on the casualty list read "Bruised but not obliged to quit the deck".
	www.twogreens.com /wakeup/battles/cape_stv.htm (2821 words)

	gardner.htm
		Battle honours for HMS Orion: Glorious 1st June 1794, Groix 1795, Cape St Vincent 1797, Battle of the Nile 1798, Battle of Trafalgar 1805, Baltic 1807.
		The first was with Rodney at the Moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent in 1780 followed by Cuddalore in 1783.
		When built she carried ninety guns, but like certain other Second Rates of her class, additional guns were mounted in the early 1780's and it was as a 98 that she fought at both the second Battle of Ushant in 1781 and at the Glorious 1st of June in 1794.
	www.cranstonfinearts.com /gardner.htm (675 words)

	SantaCruz
		No sooner was the Battle of Cape St Vincent won on February 14th 1797 than Nelson was sent with a small squadron to intercept the Viceroy of Mexico who was suposed to be approaching Cadiz with a cargo of gold reputed to be worth 6 or 7 million pounds.
		The battle was waged on 5 fronts, the mole, the area around the Plaza de la Pila, the Santos gully, the beach of the Carnicerias, and the Monastery of Santo Domingo.
		There was no interception and intelligence revealed that because of their fear of the British fleet the treasure ships had not actually sailed from Central America.
	www.aboutnelson.co.uk /santacruz.htm (717 words)

	Battle of St Vincent
		Sir John Jervis in the VICTORY (100) was commanding a British fleet in early 1797 and was awaiting the return of Commodore Nelson's squadron from the West Indies where it had been engaged in a special mission.
		Jervis was rewarded for his audacious action by elevation to the peerage and he became the Earl St. Vincent.
		The battle which took place on St. Valentine's day, February 14th marked a turning point in the war, which up until then had little glory for the British.
	www.hms.org.uk /nelsonsnavystvinc.htm (943 words)

	William Hazlitt (1778-1830), Chapter FOUR -- "The Times -- 1796-97."
		With two great naval successes in 1797 -- Battle of Cape St. Vincent (February) and at Camperdown (October) -- Nelson was ordered to enter the Mediterranean and by May of 1798, the British fleet was sailing back and forth in the Mediterranean.
		The Portsmouth Mutiny of 1797 "lasted five weeks and spread all over the world."7 The sailors ran the very great risk of losing their lives but they "held firm and by mid-May the admiralty capitulated.
		In August, Nelson caught up to the French fleet which he destroyed at the Battle of the Nile.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Hazlitt/Ch004.htm (1178 words)

	Best of the Web
		Details of one of Nelsons major victories on February 14th 1797 at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
		Battle of Trafalgar 200, a site dedicated to all the celebrations leading up to the 200th anniversary of Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson's victory against the combined fleets of France and Spain at the Battle of Trafalgar.
		This information has been compiled from a long list of the awards made to the seamen who fought in the various Royal Navy ships under the Command of Admiral Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805.
	www.hms.org.uk /bestlinks.htm (717 words)

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