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Manuel Godoy reading the Manifesto of the Prince of Peace to all Spaniards, calling to arms against the English, December 1804, (1851). Spanish politician Godoy (1767-1851) was a favourite and Prime Minister of Charles IV. The series of actions perpetrated by the British fleet against Spanish ships reached its climax on 5 October 1804, with the blowing up of a Spanish frigate and the apprehension of three vessels carrying wealth from the viceroyalty of Peru, in a battle that took place off Cape Santa María. From "Historia del Levantamiento, guerra y revolución de España" (History of the Spanish Uprising, War and Revolution) by the Conde de Toreno, Madrid, 1851.