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| casualties1 = 1 galleon burned,<br>1 patache<ref name="Loss">Fernández Duro, p. 265</ref> |
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| Battle of Cádiz (1640) | |||||||
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| Part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659) | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Spanish Empire |
 France | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Jerónimo Gómez de Sandoval | Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé | ||||||
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10 galleons, 1 patache[1] |
24 galleons, 12 fireships[1] | ||||||
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1 galleon burned, 1 patache sunk[2] | Unknown | ||||||
The Battle of Cádiz (1640) was a naval battle in the Franco-Spanish War (1635-1659), which took place on July 21, 1640 , when a French squadron under Jean Armand de Maillé-Brézé attacked and defeated a Spanish convoy coming from the Americas.
The attack occurred just in front of the coast of Cádiz.
Armand de Breze employed a hitherto unknown tactic of attacking the Spanish convoy from both sides. The Spanish lost a galleon and a small vessels, while the French losses were unknown.
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Source
- Template:Es icon Cesáreo Fernández Duro. Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y de León, Vol. IV. Est. tipográfico Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, Madrid, 1898.
- The Probert encyclopaedia of Warfare