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    The Battle of Cape Passaro, also known as Battle of Avola or Battle of Syracuse, was a major naval battle fought on 11 August 1718 between a fleet of the...
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  • Financial Planner Battle of Cape Passaro Cape Passaro, Sicily, Italy Cidade Pássaro, the Portuguese name of the drama film Shine Your Eyes Pássaro da Manhã, a...
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  • Battle of Cape Passaro 11 August 1718, sold to Austria 1720, who renamed her San Carlos and deployed her to Naples (thus earning the distinction of service...
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    firing squad. After joining the navy at the age of thirteen, he participated at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. Over the next thirty years he built up...
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    War of the Spanish Succession and then saw active service against Spain at the Battle of Cape Passaro, off the south tip of Sicily, during the War of the...
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    Byng eliminated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro. This was followed in the autumn by the landing of a small Austrian army, assembled in Naples...
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    dedicated to his wife Catherine, began in Tallinn. August 11 – Battle of Cape Passaro: a Spanish fleet is defeated by the British Royal Navy under Admiral...
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    HMS Grafton (1709) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Navy)
    command of George Forbes, 3rd Earl of Granard, and by 1718 she was commanded by Nicholas Haddock, and was present at the Battle of Cape Passaro. By 1738...
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    poorly maintained escort fleet was destroyed by the British in the Battle of Cape Passaro and the Spanish invasion army was defeated in Italy by the Austrians...
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    Spanish Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of Cape Passaro against Great Britain on 11 August 1718 off the coast of Sicily, where Gaztañeta's fleet was...
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