Battle of Majorca a seaborne attack on the Balearic Islands seem to have surfaced independently in various Republican militia groups in the days following the joining of Ibiza, Formentera, and Majorca to Franco's Nationalist military rebellion. Already, on July 23, bomber squadrons struck Palma and Cabrera, and on August 1, a Republican expeditionary force from Menorca landed at Cabrera and resisted all efforts to dislodge it. These actions, however, and in particular the Majorca landings, were never approved by the Madrid government and had from the very beginning an air of confusion and improvisation. On August 2, Bayo assembled a column of Barcelona
Minorca (1799 ship) "Minorca" to Reeve & Co. "Lloyd's Register" for 1804 reports that "Minorca"s master was J. Sunter, her owner Reeve & Co., and her trade Plymouth to Cork. That entry continued unchanged through 1810. The 1804 volume of the "Register of Shipping" lists her master as Sanster, her owner as F. Hurry, and her trade as London transport. She is last listed in the "Register of Shipping" in 1806 with Parks, master, Reeves & Co., owners, and trade: London transport. On 9 November 1805 "Minorca" put into Charleston in distress, but whether she sailed again afterwards is not clear. She had