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BATTLE OF CAPE ST VINCENT: Confirmation that Sir John Jervis's unorthodox manoeuvre helped win the day,
Spanish letters from Madrid inserted in the Paris Papers state that: On the weather clearing up the Spaniards were astonished to see the English in two close lines and crowding sail to cut off a part of the Spanish Fleet back page, col.3 in a complete issue of: THE TIMES dated 24 March 1797 -- 15cm. of column space; together with: Extract of an Official Dispatch of Don JOSEPH DE CORDOVA, Admiral and Commander in chief of the Spanish Fleet, to Don JUAN DE LANGARA, the Spanish Minister of Marine, relative to the Action between the British and Spanish fleets, off Cape St Vincent's on the 14th of February last ("From the MADRID GAZETTE") ..When the headmost ship of the English had passed through our rear, they tacked about; five or six other ships did the same, doubled us, and presented themselves on the other tack, keeping up a most vigorous fire. Having foreseen this manoeuvre from the beginning of the action, I gave orders to the headmost ships to wear to lee-ward of the enemy's rear-guard; and had this been practicable, the enemy would have been between two fires.. Front page, col.4 in a complete issue of: THE COURIER (LONDON) for 13 April 1797 -- 27cm. of column space (2)
Spanish letters from Madrid inserted in the Paris Papers state that: On the weather clearing up the Spaniards were astonished to see the English in two close lines and crowding sail to cut off a part of the Spanish Fleet back page, col.3 in a complete issue of: THE TIMES dated 24 March 1797 -- 15cm. of column space; together with: Extract of an Official Dispatch of Don JOSEPH DE CORDOVA, Admiral and Commander in chief of the Spanish Fleet, to Don JUAN DE LANGARA, the Spanish Minister of Marine, relative to the Action between the British and Spanish fleets, off Cape St Vincent's on the 14th of February last ("From the MADRID GAZETTE") ..When the headmost ship of the English had passed through our rear, they tacked about; five or six other ships did the same, doubled us, and presented themselves on the other tack, keeping up a most vigorous fire. Having foreseen this manoeuvre from the beginning of the action, I gave orders to the headmost ships to wear to lee-ward of the enemy's rear-guard; and had this been practicable, the enemy would have been between two fires.. Front page, col.4 in a complete issue of: THE COURIER (LONDON) for 13 April 1797 -- 27cm. of column space (2)
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