Cape Finisterre — Geography

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Fog-bound fleet action off the cape, 22 July 1805. Not a cape survey.

Overview

The location is already on the Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805. On 22 July 1805 Calder Robert — British Admiral fought Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral’s Combined Fleet in fog off Cape Finisterre, in north-west Spain, as that fleet came back from the West Indies.¹

The Cape

This note covers that battle location only. A lighthouse, coordinates, a founding year, and a later memorial stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The battle itself stays on the Finisterre overview. Cape Trafalgar — Geography is the 21 October 1805 headland, not this cape. Cape St Vincent — Geography is the 14 February 1797 cape, not this shore. Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port is where Villeneuve ended after turning south, not this cape.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @white2005nelson
• Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805

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• Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805
• Cape Trafalgar — Geography
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• Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port

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• Trafalgar Campaign 1805
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Footnotes

1. Off Cape Finisterre, north-west Spain; fog; 22 July 1805; return from the West Indies: Battle of Cape Finisterre 1805. ↩

2. Villeneuve turned south to Cadiz: same note. Do not invent a lighthouse, coordinates, or a later memorial. Do not rewrite the battle overview here. ↩