Pauline's Pirates & Privateers: Seafaring Sunday: Cape St. Vincent

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Seafaring Sunday: Cape St. Vincent

January 16, 1780: A Royal Navy fleet under Admiral George Rodney defeated a Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.

Header: The Battle of Cape St. Vincent by Francis Holman c 1780

2 comments:

Timmy! said...: Ahoy, Pauline! Huzzah for Admiral George Rodney and the Royal Navy!

And sorry about your Saints...; January 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM
Pauline said...: In every contest and so on; those Napoleonic Wars were hard on everybody.; January 17, 2012 at 2:55 PM