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Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805)
In the Battle of Cape Finisterre (22 July 1805) the British fleet captured two ships while preventing the Franco-Spanish fleet from entering the English Channel to help Napoleon invade Britain. The British fleet commanded by Vice Admiral Sir Robert Calder and a Franco-Spanish fleet commanded by Admiral Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve fought near Cape Finisterre off (Galicia in northwest Spain, Spain) during the War of the Third Coalition in the Napoleonic Wars.
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