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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gravina and the second or maternal family name is Cruyllas.
Federico Gravina
Portrait at the Museo Naval de Madrid
Birth name
Federico Carlo Gravina Cruyllas
Born
(1756-08-12)12 August 1756 Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily
Died
9 May 1806(1806-05-09) (aged 49) Cádiz, Kingdom of Spain
Allegiance
Spanish Empire
Service/branch
Spanish Navy
Years of service
1768–1806
Rank
Admiral
Battles/wars
American War of Independence
Siege of Gibraltar
Capture of HMS St. Fermin
Invasion of Minorca
French Revolutionary Wars
Siege of Toulon
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar (DOW)
Federico Carlos Gravina y Nápoli, born Federico Carlo Gravina Cruyllas (12 August 1756 – 9 May 1806) was a Sicilian-Spanish admiral in the service of the Spanish Empire,[1][2][3][4] during the American Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. He died of wounds sustained during the Battle of Trafalgar. Explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina Island in Alaska in his honor.
^Warner, Oliver (Feb. 2003). Nelson's Battles, Pen and Sword, Yorkshire.
^Tracy, Nicholas (1998). The Naval Chronicle: The Contemporary Record of the Royal Navy at War, Chatham, London, p. 17
^Quirk, Ronald J. (1998). Literature as Introspection: Spain Confronts Trafalgar, Peter Lang. Bern, p. 58.
^Clonard, Conde de. Historia orgánica de las armas de Infanteria y Caballeria españolas desde la creacion del ejercito permanente hasta el dia, Vol. 5, p. 434.
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