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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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  • This is an order of battle for the Battle of Vimeiro that was fought on 20 August 1808. Gen = General Lt Gen = Lieutenant-General Maj Gen = Major-General...
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  • in the District of Lisboa. The population in 2011 was 1,470, in an area of 7.08 km². Vimeiro was the site of the 1808 Battle of Vimeiro, where British...
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    Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro At the Battle of Roliça (17 August 1808), the...
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    Francis Austen (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
    the lee line of ships into the battle. He later commanded the third-rate HMS St Albans and observed the Battle of Vimeiro from the deck of his ship before...
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    Henri François Delaborde (category Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour)
    fought a skillful and brilliant rear-guard action at the Battle of Roliça. At the Battle of Vimeiro on 21 August 1808, he was wounded while leading his troops...
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    the French at the Battle of Roliça and the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808 but was superseded in command immediately after the latter battle. General Dalrymple...
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    14 October 1806 Battle of Eylau – 7–8 February 1807 Battle of Friedland – 14 June 1807 Battle of Vimeiro – 21 August 1808 Battle of Somosierra – 30 November...
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  • community) Battle of Vimeiro, an 1808 victory of British forces under Wellington over French forces under Junot during the Peninsular War Battle of Vimeiro order...
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  • Benjamin Randell Harris (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
    exhilarating and terrifying experience. Many of his companions were killed at this action and the ensuing Battle of Vimeiro, but Harris remained unhurt, continuing...
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    1    The Battle of Waterloo (Dutch: [ˈʋaːtərloː] ) was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815, near Waterloo (at that time in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...
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    Books Ltd. p. 159, paragraph 2, reference to Junots defeat at the battle of Vimeiro. ISBN 9781861895196. Esdaile, Charles (2002). The Peninsular War....
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    three weeks after landing, Wellesley defeated the French at the Battle of Vimeiro. Aware of his weak position, French général de division (divisional general)...
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  • Mexican–American War Battle of Veracruz – 1914 – see United States occupation of Veracruz Battle of Verdun – 1916 – World War I Battle of Vimeiro – 1808 – Napoleonic...
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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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    François Étienne de Kellermann (category People of the Battle of Waterloo)
    division under Jean-Andoche Junot in the 1807 Invasion of Portugal. At the Battle of Vimeiro he led the grenadier reserve and, after the French defeat...
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  • forces of King Afonso V and the rebellious Duke of Coimbra Battle of Alcântara (1580) part of the War of the Portuguese Succession Battle of Vimeiro (1808)...
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    Pierre Margaron (category Commanders of the Legion of Honour)
    maʁɡaʁɔ̃]; 1 May 1765 – 16 December 1824) led the French cavalry at the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808. He joined a volunteer battalion in 1792. He rose in rank...
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    Vedras (Marquês de Torres Vedras, 1812) and Count of Vimeiro (Conde de Vimeiro, 1811) of the Kingdom of Portugal. These were granted to the first Duke as...
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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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    force landed at the mouth of the Mondego river. After a French defeat at Roliça, Junot himself was beaten at the Battle of Vimeiro on 21 August 1808, and...
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  • in Lisbon in 1808 following the British capture of the Portuguese capital after the Battle of Vimeiro. He is employed by Arthur Wellesley in mapping the...
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  • John Shelton (British Army officer) (category 44th Regiment of Foot officers)
    (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot on 21 November 1805. Two years later he became a lieutenant. In 1808 he saw action at the battles of Roliça, Vimiero and Corunna...
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  • list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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    victory over Junot at the Battle of Vimeiro (21 August 1808) was wiped out by his superiors in the Convention of Cintra (30 August 1808), which allowed...
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    the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important military engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near the town of Austerlitz...
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    and under General Sir Arthur Wellesley, fought in the Battle of Roliça and the Battle of Vimeiro in August 1808. The regiment fought under General Sir...
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    The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French...
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    Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (category Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India)
    in the 9th Regiment of Foot on 26 May 1808. His first experience of war was under Sir Arthur Wellesley at the Battle of Vimeiro on 21 August 1808 during...
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  • Portuguese troops, they defeated Junot at the Battle of Vimeiro; this first French invasion was ended by the Convention of Sintra negotiated by his superiors, which...
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