Regional1805

Battle of Cape Finisterre

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Spain

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805), part of the Napoleonic Wars (3rd Coalition). United Kingdom defeated France.

Belligerents2

United Kingdom
France

ON THE MAPBritish Empire (1815)

Conflict graph

PART OFWar of the Third Coalition

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Cape Finisterre (1805). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-cape-finisterre-1805 · Sources & methodology