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	1780 Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Year 1780 (MDCCLXXX) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
		The original Craven Cottage was built in 1780, by William Craven, the sixth Baron Craven and was located on the centre circle of the pitch.
		Mozart by Croce 1780 81 "Della Croce Mozart", authentic portait, 1780-1781
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	Learn more about List of battles (alphabetical) in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
		Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
		Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
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	ipedia.com: Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was a victory of a British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney over a Spanish squadron under Don Juan de Lángara in the American War of Independence.
		Rodney's fleet, on its way to relieve Gibraltar which was under siege by the Spanish, caught De Langara's smaller squadron of 11 ships of the line off Cape St. Vincent in south-western Spain.
		The battle is also known as the Moonlight Battle, because it took place during the night, and as the Battle of Cape Sta.
	www.ipedia.com /battle_of_cape_st__vincent__1780_.html (243 words)

	Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780 by Francis Holman, painted 1780 shows the Santo Domingo exploding, with Rodney's flagship Sandwich in the foreground.
		The naval Battle of Cape St Vincent, or Battle of Cape Santa Maria, took place on 16 January 1780, during the American Revolutionary War and was a victory of a British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney over a Spanish squadron under Don Juan de Lángara.
		It is also known as the Moonlight Battle, because it was unusual for naval battles in the age of sail to take place at night.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_St._Vincent_(1780) (486 words)

	Kunglig Navy - Royal Navy
		Den mest mycket viktiga post-war verksamheten som bara förades vid den kungliga Navyen, finnas nederlaget i 1982 av Argentinan i det Falkland ökriget.
		Den kungliga Navyen finnas för närvarande deployed i flera areor av världen som inbegriper ett nummer av att stå kungliga Navy deployments.
		Battle 1781 av Chesapeaken och Battle av den Dogger banken (1781)
	ensv.explicatus.org /wiki/Royal_Navy (3756 words)

	Derek Gardner, Naval Art
		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.
		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 Edgar by Derek Gardner
	www.militaryartcompany.com /gardner.htm (999 words)

	The Growth of a Century
		Thus far it has been shown that the village of Cape Vincent was not only prosperous, even in early times, when the whole country had been impoverished by a war; but was a village which bid fair to become a place of no little importance in the near future.
		Cape Vincent had no manufacturing advantages, and whatever importance it gained could only have been secondary to the point where the traffic centered and the machinery was located.
		The larger Cape Vincent became and the more its traffic increased, the greater Watertown would have become; and instead of being a small city today, it would have rivaled Utica, Syracuse or Rochester, and the holdings of those men would have been worth thousands where today they are worth but hundreds.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ny/town/capevincent/HADDOCK.htm (8229 words)

	American Revolution - American war of independence
		Burgoyne, with the assistance of able officers such as Brigadier Simon Fraser and Colonel St Leger, in August 1777 moved south against the increasing quagmire of local resistance until, running out of supplies, he was forced to surrender at the battle of Saratoga on 17th October 1777.
		Following the battle of Brandywine Creek on 11th September 1777 the British took Philadelphia and Washington settled in for the winter in Valley Forge to the North of the city, making his last effort of the year in the attack on Germantown.
		A major feature of every battle of the period was the pall of gun powder smoke generated by the cannon and musket fire.
	www.britishbattles.com /american-revolution.htm (4161 words)

	Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837) - Rehs Galleries, Inc.
		Holman’s, Johnson St., St. Georges” and it appears that he continued to work with Holman until the early 1780’s.
		Luny was living on his own by 1780 as his address was given in the Royal Academy exhibition of that year as Anchor and Hope Street, St. George’s, Middlesex; this was also the year he exhibited his first work there.
		The history of the battle is as follows: In 1779 Spain entered the war for American independence.
	www.rehs.com /thomas_luny_battle_of_cape_st_vincent.html (960 words)

	American Revolutionary War - ExampleProblems.com
		Meanwhile, St. Leger—half of his force American Indians led by Joseph Brant—had laid siege to Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River.
		One wing of his army was utterly defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, delaying his move into North Carolina.
		Also in 1780, the British struck against the United Provinces of the Netherlands in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War to preempt Dutch involvement in the League of Armed Neutrality, directed primarily against the British Navy during the war.
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	wooden model ships
		In 1801, she was Rear Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship prior to the Battle of Copenhagen; he transferred his flag to HMS Elephant, whose lighter draft enabled him to sail closer inshore for the bombardment of the Danish capital on April 2.
		At the Battle of Trafalgar, on October 21, 1805, she was closely engaged by HMS Victory.
		She was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse in the Battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794.
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	The Moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780
		Cape St Vincent is on the south coast of Portugal and has been the site of several important naval actions, including this battle during the American Revolutionary War (1775—83).
		Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney was leading a fleet of eighteen ships to relieve Gibraltar from siege when they came across a squadron of Spanish ships.
		Battle commenced at 4pm and continued until 2am the following morning.
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	Battles of New York
		The battle continued until twilight, when the superior number of the assailants obliged the patriots at both forts to give way, and attempt a scattered retreat or escape.
		This place (Fort Plain) was included in the Canajoharie settlement, and in 1780 felt severely the vengeance of the Tories and Indians, inflicted in return for the terrible desolation wrought by an army under Sullivan, the previous year, in the Indian country west of the white settlements.
		Carleton's Raid was undertaken in the autumn of 1780 in accordance with the policy of the British to harass and devastate the colonies at every possible point.
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		The first was with Rodney at the Moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent in 1780 followed by Cuddalore in 1783.
		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.
		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)

	American Revolutionary War - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		In the Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776, the British expertly executed a surprise flanking maneuver, driving the Americans back to the Brooklyn Heights fortifications.
		Meanwhile, St. Leger—half of his force Indians led by Joseph Brant—had laid siege to Fort Stanwix on the Mohawk River.
		Later that year, in the last major encounter of the war, the Battle of Blue Licks, a party of Kentuckians was soundly defeated by a superior force of British regulars and Native Americans.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=771 (4955 words)

	Trafalgar Day - Nelson: a counterrevolutionary adventurer
		His victories in the battles of the Nile and Trafalgar during the Napoleonic Wars caught the public imagination at the time, and he was considered a national hero, both in his own lifetime and in the Victorian period following his death.
		Subsequently he saw battle service in the West Indies in 1780, was chosen to instruct Prince William, later William IV, in naval tactics, studied naval matters in France, and in 1784 commanded the British frigate Boreas, stationed at Antigua.
		In the Battle of Cape St Vincent 1797 he was promoted rear admiral of the Blue.
	www.marxist.com /trafalgar-nelson-adventurer211005.htm (7000 words)

	CNN - Almanac - January 16, 1998
		In 1756, the Treaty of Westminster was signed between George II of England and his nephew Frederick of Prussia; it guaranteed the neutrality of Hanover in the Anglo-French wars.
		In 1780, Admiral Sir George Rodney defeated a Spanish squadron at Cape St Vincent, thus relieving Gibraltar.
		In 1947, Vincent Auriol was elected president of France, the first president of the Fourth Republic.
	www.cnn.com /almanac/9801/16 (743 words)

	Royal Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The reformation and major expansion of the Navy Royal as it was then known occurred the reign of King Henry VIII whose ships the " Great Harry " and the " Mary Rose " engaged the French navy in a battle in the Solent in 1545.
		In that time the Navy suffered only one major defeat the Battle of the Chesapeake against France and was able to decisively all challengers as at the Battle of Trafalgar.
		1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight Battle of Coronel Battle of the Falkland Islands
	www.freeglossary.com /Royal_Navy (1172 words)

	William IV of the United Kingdom Summary
		He was baptized in the Great Council Chamber of St James's Palace on 18 September 1765 and his godparents were the Duke of Gloucester, Prince Henry and Princess Augusta Charlotte.
		At the age of thirteen, he joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and was present at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1780.
		Although William IV had no legitimate children, and is, therefore, not the direct ancestor of the later monarchs of the United Kingdom, he has many descendants through his illegitimate family with Mrs Jordan, including the man elected as leader of the Conservative Party in 2005, David Cameron, Adam Hart-Davis and Oliver Reed.
	www.bookrags.com /William_IV_of_the_United_Kingdom (3193 words)

	George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney Summary
		In September 1780, leaving half of his fleet in West Indian waters, Rodney sailed to New York and foiled George Washington's designs for a Franco-American land and sea assault on the city.
		On 19 May 1759 he became a rear-admiral, and was shortly after given command of a small squadron intended to destroy a large number of flat-bottomed boats and stores which were being collected at Havre for an invasion of the English coasts.
		He captured a Spanish convoy off Cape Finisterre on 8 January 1780, and eight days later at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent defeated the Spanish Admiral Don Juan de Lángara off Cape St. Vincent, taking or destroying seven ships.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Brydges_Rodney,_1st_Baron_Rodney (1757 words)

	Lord Horatio Nelson and his Band of Brothers
		In 1797 he fought in a large engagement of Cape St. Vincent where a heavy defeat was inflicted upon the Spanish.
		This was followed in 1798 by the battle of the Nile where the French fleet was nearly annihilated.
		The battle of Trafalgar put to an end, for good and all, Napoleon's efforts to take control of the seas away from Britain.
	www.indepthinfo.com /band-of-brothers/lord-nelson.shtml (631 words)

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