Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)

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The Battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) was a major naval engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession in which the British fleet decisively defeated a French convoy off the coast of Spain, securing control of Atlantic trade routes.


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Edward Hawke
Edward Hawke
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Edward Boscawen
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