Battle of Cabrita Point was a naval engagement fought in 1705 at Marbella, in what is now Spain. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Marbella. It was part of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ran from 1701 to 1714. The recorded result: Grand Alliance victory. Recorded strength: 35 ships of the line against 18 ships of the line.
Where it sits in the War of the Spanish Succession
101 placed engagements of the War of the Spanish Succession in time order; taller ticks are more widely documented. Each tick is a link.
Record
Date
1705 (year precision)
Place
Marbella, Spain 36.511N, 4.883W
Kind
Naval engagement, early modern
Strength
35 ships of the line
18 ships of the line
Casualties and losses
Unknown killed or wounded
Unknown killed or wounded; 3 ships of the line captured; 2 ships of the line destroyed
Commanders
John Leake
Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis
Placed at Marbella; the exact site is not recorded. with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.
Battle of Cabrita Point is one of 2,126 engagements of the 18th century in the atlas and one of 1,204 in present-day Spain.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q2889254, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Cabrita Point, revision 1370435741, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.