Battle of Cádiz
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At least six battles at or near the port of Cádiz in Spain are known as the Battle of Cádiz:
- In the Battle of Cádiz (1587) in the Anglo-Spanish War, Francis Drake was repulsed outside the city but famously "singed the king of Spain's beard" by torching 23 merchant ships.
- The Battle of Cádiz (1596) was another raid of the Anglo-Spanish War.
- In the Battle of Cádiz (1640) in the Thirty Years' War a French squadron led by Armand de Maillé-Brézé attacked a Spanish convoy.
- In the Battle of Cádiz (1702) in the War of the Spanish Succession, Francisco de Villadarias defeated an Anglo-Dutch force led by George Rooke.
- In the Battle of Cádiz (1810) in the Peninsular War, the French besieged an Allied army in the city.
- Cádiz was also raided unsuccessfully by an English force under George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, in 1625.
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