Charles René Magon de Médine
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Counter-Admiral Charles René Magon de Médine was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was killed in action at the Battle
1879 illustration of Magon's death at Trafalgar
In the Battle of Cape Finisterre off Galicia, Spain, the British fleet under Admiral Robert Calder fought an indecisive naval battle against the combined Franco-Spanish fleet which was returning from
Painting of the battle by William Anderson
Defiance, Windsor Castle, Prince of Wales, Repulse, Raisonable, and Glory, an engraving after Thomas Whitcombe
Day after the action – British frigates have two Spanish prizes, the Firme and the San Rafael under tow on the right. Painting by William Anderson