Sea battle at Cape St. Vincent (1833)

The naval battle at Cape St. Vincent in 1833 took place in the course of the Miguelistenkrieg . On July 5, 1833, the British and Portuguese fleets met in front of Cabo de São Vicente . Here Miguel finally succumbed and was banished.

On the British side, Admiral Charles John Napier fought . The naval battle was captured in the picture by the military painter George Philip Reinagle ( Admiral Napier's Glorious Triumph over the Miguelite Squadron ; from 1834 in the Royal Academy of Arts ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gabriel Calvo López-Guerrero, Sabine Tzschaschel: ADAC travel guide plus Algarve . ADAC-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89905-788-1 ( google.de [accessed on August 25, 2019]).
2. ↑ Algarve. Retrieved August 26, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Walther L. Bernecker, Horst Pietschmann: History of Portugal: From the late Middle Ages to the present . CH Beck, 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-66376-5 ( google.de [accessed on August 25, 2019]).