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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
Admiral of the Fleet
John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent
(9 January 1735 – 14 March 1823) was an admiral in the
Royal Navy
and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the
Seven Years' War
,
American War of Independence
,
French Revolutionary War
and the
Napoleonic Wars
. He is best known for his victory at the 1797
Battle of Cape Saint Vincent
, from which he earned his titles, and as a
patron
of
Horatio Nelson
.
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