Finisterre, CAPE, a promontory at the north-western extremity of Spain, off which Anson (q.v.) defeated Jonquière, and Sir Robert Calder cut off two vessels of the Franco-Spanish fleet in 1805.
Finisterre
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 623
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