Recognition of a battle on European cape (9)

I believe the answer is:

awareness

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'recognition' is the definition.
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'a battle on european cape' is the wordplay.
'battle on' becomes 'war' (I've seen this before. I am not sure about the 'on' bit.**).
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'cape' becomes 'ness' ('ness' can be a synonym of 'cape').
'a'+'war'+'e'+'ness'='AWARENESS'

'of' is the link.

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(Other definitions for awareness that I've seen before include "Consciousness, sentience" , "Mindfulness, consciousness" , "Knowledge (of a fact)" , "Consciousness,knowingness" , "Consciousness, knowingness" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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