Editing Captain general (section)

==== Navy ====
{{Main|Captain general of the Navy}}
The evolution of the title in the [[Spanish Navy]] is parallel to that of the army. During the 16th and 17th century the two main naval captain general posts were ''Capitán-General de la Armada del Mar Océano'' and ''Capitán-General de Galeras'', roughly [[Commander-in-Chief]] for the Atlantic and the Mediterranean respectively.

A peculiar usage of the rank arose in the Spanish Navy of the 16th century. A ''capitán-general'' was appointed by the king as the leader of a fleet (although the term 'squadron' is more appropriate, as most galleon fleets rarely consisted of more than a dozen vessels, not counting escorted merchantmen), with full jurisdictional powers. The fleet [[second-in-command]] was the 'almirante' (admiral), an officer appointed by the capitan-general and responsible for the seaworthiness of the squadron.<ref>"Spanish Galleon: 1530–1690" by Angus Konstam, copyright 2004 [[Osprey Publishing]], Ltd.</ref> One captain-general that sailed under the Spanish flag that is now well known was [[Ferdinand Magellan]], leader of the first fleet to sail around the world.

Under the Nationalist regime of 1939–1975, the only holder of the rank of ''capitán general de la armada'' was the [[Caudillo]], [[Generalísimo]] [[Francisco Franco]].<ref name=fnff/>