Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1833) Admiral Manuel António Marreiros. On 6 July, receiving news of the victory, Dom Pedro named Napier as Viscount Cape St Vincent in the peerage of Portugal. Immediately afterwards his fleet was ravaged by cholera (which was raging on mainland Portugal), with appalling loss of life, but he was able to bring it safe into Lisbon, which the Miguelistas had precipitately abandoned after being defeated by Terceira’s army advancing from the south at the Battle of Almada. Napier visited Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker of the British navy who was in the vicinity of the Tagus, and was received according to his
St. Vincent Street St. Vincent Street St. Vincent Street, is a major thoroughfare in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The street runs westwards from George Square until it meets Argyle Street in the city's West End. St. Vincent Street was named to commemorate the victory of Sir John Jervis, on 15 February 1797, off Cape Saint Vincent. The Street crosses Glasgow's main shopping street, Buchanan Street just west of George Square. Further west it also crosses the M8. Some of the notable buildings on the street are the St Vincent Street Church (designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson), the North British And Mercantile