The Battle of Cape Passaro, also known as Battle of Avola or Battle of Syracuse, was a naval battle fought on 11 August 1718 between a fleet of the British...
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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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John Byng (redirect from Execution of Admiral Byng)
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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HMS Superb (1710) (category Age of Sail naval ships of France)
throughout Queen Anne's War and the War of the Quadruple Alliance, during which she participated in the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. She was broken up in 1732...
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HMS Blast (1695) (category Bomb vessels of the Royal Navy)
saw service in the fleets of Admirals Berkeley and Byng and took part in the British victory at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718. In 1721 she was converted...
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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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HMS Cumberland (section Battle honours)
renamed Principe de Asturias. Then captured back by Britain at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718 and sold to Austria in 1720, and renamed San Carlos. HMS Cumberland (1710)...
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George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (redirect from George Anson, Baron Anson of Soberton)
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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Messina, which was besieged since 18 July. On 11 August, at the Battle of Cape Passaro, a British fleet, led by Sir George Byng, attacked and destroyed...
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