Julien Cosmao
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Counter-Admiral Julien Marie Cosmao-Kerjulien was a French Navy officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is best known for his actions duri
Portrait by Auguste Étienne François Mayer, c. 1835
The Franco-Spanish squadron under Cosmao attacking Diamond Rock in 1805
Cosmao's name on the Arc de Triomphe (fourth from bottom right)
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