✦ History

Part of French Revolutionary Wars

Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)

February 14, 1797 · Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797)

Result British victory

Jervis's British fleet beat a larger Spanish fleet off south-western Portugal and took four ships.

On the map Contemporaries

Coalition

France

Great Britain
Spain
Horatio Nelson military commander John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent military commander William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock military commander Sir Charles Thompson, 1st Baronet military commander
Juan Joaquín Moreno de Mondragón military commander José de Córdoba y Ramos military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
c. 9,000
Casualties
c. 600
Killed
73
Wounded
227
Ships
c. 22
Guns
c. 1,422
Strength
c. 15,000
Casualties
c. 3,500
Killed
430
Wounded
856
Captured
3,000c. 2,000
Ships
c. 39
Ships lost
c. 4
Ships captured
4
Guns
c. 2,610
Guns lost
c. 384

Units

Jervis's fleet (1797)
Córdoba's Spanish fleet (1797)

Also involved 3