Aug 19 -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
Famous Birthdays
Aug 15 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter and etcher, born in Pitigliano, Italy (d. 1788)
Aug 16 Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre, Spanish military engineer and archaeologist who rediscovered the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum, born in Zaragoza, Spain (d. 1780)
