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    Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Battle of Braga or Battle of Póvoa de Lanhoso or Battle of Carvalho...
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    Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Battle of Grijó (Portuguese pronunciation:...
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  • Porto 4 Braga 3 Villafranca 2 Chaves 1    The Battle of Villafranca del Bierzo took place on 17 March 1809, during the French occupation of León in the...
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    100km 62miles Sanpayo 6 Grijó 5 Porto 4 Braga 3 Villafranca 2 Chaves 1    In the First Battle of Porto (29 March 1809) the French under Marshal Soult defeated...
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  • Spain. The Spanish campaign in early 1809 had ended. The Second Portuguese campaign started with the Battle of Braga. Bodart 1908, p. 408. Esdaile 2003...
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    7 Alcántara 6 Medellín 5 Ciudad Real 4 3 2 Uclés 1    The Battle of Alcántara (14 May 1809) saw an Imperial French division led by Marshal Claude Perrin...
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    100km 62miles Sanpayo 6 Grijó 5 Porto 4 Braga 3 Villafranca 2 Chaves 1    The Battle of Puente Sanpayo or Battle of San Payo (Galician: Ponte Sampaio) took...
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    Silveira. After the Battle of Talavera, Soult was made chief of staff of French forces in Spain with extended powers, and on 19 November 1809, won a great victory...
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    Chaves Braga Grijó Porto The Second French invasion of Portugal, a campaign of the Peninsular War, commenced on 3 February 1809 with French Marshal Soult's...
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    Second Portuguese campaign had started with the Battle of Braga. In the First Battle of Porto (28 March 1809), the French under Marshal Soult defeated the...
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    1809 it was the scene of the Battle of Braga, when French troops under Marshal Soult took the town from its Portuguese garrison. With the invasion of...
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    The Battle of Pedroso was fought on 18 February 1071, in Pedroso, near the Cávado river crossing next to Monastery of São Martinho de Tibães, Braga, Portugal...
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  • incorporated into the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under Wellington, created on 22 April 1809. Napoleon had intended the campaign on the Peninsula to be a walkover, but...
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  • of Chaves – 1809 – Peninsular War Battle of Braga (1809) – 1809 – Peninsular War First Battle of Porto – 1809 – Peninsular War Battle of Grijó – 1809...
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    Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The siege of Chaves refers to the French siege and capture of Fort...
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    000 unprepared and undisciplined Portuguese at Braga at the cost of 200 Frenchmen. At the First Battle of Porto on 29 March, the Portuguese defenders panicked...
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    Henri-Antoine Jardon (category 1809 deaths)
    Wars. As part of the Soult's Corps, he participated in the 2nd French invasion of Portugal in 1809, and was killed at the Battle of Braga. Mullié, Charles...
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    Bernardim Freire de Andrade (category 1809 deaths)
    18 February 1759 – Braga, 17 March 1809) was a Portuguese Army general officer who was appointed, in July 1808, commander-in-chief of the Portuguese forces...
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  • Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also List of Napoleonic Battles Battles of the...
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    Porto Boat Bridge disaster (category History of Porto)
    On 29 March 1809 the Ponte das Barcas (Bridge of Boats), a pontoon bridge on the River Douro in Porto, Portugal was the site of one of the world's most...
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  • Baron Eben (category Portuguese military commanders of the Napoleonic Wars)
    militia at Braga. When the latter fled Braga and was brought back to the camp by the Ordenanza militia, Eben had him thrown into gaol. Members of the Ordenanza...
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    Ponte da Mizarela (category Bridges in Braga District)
    25 July 2016. "Battle of the Douro". www.britishbattles.com. Retrieved 25 October 2020. "Soult's passage of the Misarella, 17 May 1809". www.historyofwar...
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    Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro At the Battle of Roliça (17 August 1808), the first battle fought...
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    Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro In the Battle of Vimeiro (sometimes shown as...
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  • Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Lines of Torres Vedras were lines of forts and other...
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    chronological list of the battles involving France in modern history. These lists do not include the battles of the French civil wars (as the Wars of Religion,...
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    Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro At the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (3–5 May 1811)...
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  • The following tables show the sequence of events of the Peninsular War (1807–1814), including major battles, smaller actions, uprisings, sieges and other...
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    Maia, Portugal (category Municipalities of Porto District)
    Napoleonic army of the Duke of Dalmatia, the Marshal Soult, which was going from Braga to Porto. Between 1832 and 1834, in the turbulent years of struggles...
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    Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro An invasion of Portugal by French and Spanish...
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