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Cape St Vincent

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Cape St Vincent

Cape of the Algarve region, southwest Portugal. It is the extreme southwesterly point of continental Europe. England defeated the French and Spanish fleets off the cape in 1797, during the Napoleonic Wars.

The small town of Sagres, on the cape, was the location of Prince Henry the Navigator's school of navigation and cartography. It was from here that many of the great voyages of exploration were planned after its founding in 1416.
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This biography recounts Collingwood's career, from battles such as The Glorious First of June (1794) and Cape St Vincent (1797), through Collingwood's announcement to the nation of the Trafalgar victory and the death of Nelson.
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The coastline stretches 161km from Cape St Vincent to Vila Real de Santo Antonio on the border with Spain, and much of it today is built up with hotels and holiday apartment blocks, particularly the area to the west of Faro.
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