Admiral Sir Charles John Napier was a British naval officer and politician who served for sixty years in the Royal Navy, seeing action in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812, Syr
Portrait by Thomas Musgrave Joy, c. 1847
Intrepid behaviour of Captn Charles Napier, in H M 18 gun Brig Recruit for which he was appointed to the D' Haupoult. The 74 now pouring a broadside into her on 15 April 1809 with D'Hautpoul visible in the background
Napier in 1854
Bombardment of St Jean D'Acre, by Admiral Napier, 3 November 1840
The Battle of Cape St. Vincent was a naval encounter off Cape St. Vincent between a Liberal fleet under the command of British naval officer Charles Napier against a Miguelite fleet under the command
Charles Napier (Royal Navy officer)
…Liberal army to the Algarve to open a second front in the south of the country. On his return voyage he destroyed the much larger Miguelite fleet in the Battle of Cape St Vincent on 5 July 1833. These two strokes enabled the Liberals to capture Lisbon, which the Miguelites abandoned, though Napier's squadron was now ravaged by…
Naval Battle of Cape St. Vincent Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio, 1842