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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having arrived during the battle, the second soon after). The British intervention started with the Battle of Roliça. After Roliça, Wellesley had established...
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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...
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Óbidos, Portugal (category Municipalities of Leiria District)
in the vicinity of Óbidos, including the Battle of Roliça. More recently, the village was a centre of government and meeting place for those involved in...
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Tudela 4 Bailén 3 Valencia 2 Madrid 1 The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army of Andalusia, led by General Francisco Javier...
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Lisbon Évora Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Battle of Évora (29 July 1808) saw...
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keep Spain but to defend their own border. Ultimately, between the battles of Roliça (August 1808) and Toulouse (April 1814), the war against the French...
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1808, 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...
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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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Dos de Mayo Uprising (redirect from Spanish uprising of 1808)
rebellion in Portugal with the Combat of Padrões de Teixeira. The British intervention started with the Battle of Roliça led by Wellington. The Spanish conventional...
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Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The invasion of Portugal (19–30 November 1807)...
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mother of the victor of the Battle of Waterloo, Field Marshal The 1st Duke of Wellington. Anne was born Anne Hill in 1742. She was the eldest daughter of the...
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During the context of the Peninsular War, the fortification in Óbidos fired the first artillery rounds in the Battle of Roliça (1808) that resulted...
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Foot, took part in the Battle of Roliça, the first pitched battle of the war, on 17 August 1808. Rifleman Thomas Plunket of the 1st Battalion, 95th Rifles...
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earning a third nickname The Guards of the Line. Battle honours won by the regiment were: Peninsula War: Roliça, Vimeiro, Talavera, Albuhera, Peninsula...
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advanced quickly on the French, defeating them at the Battle of Roliça (17 August) and later the Battle of Vimeiro (21 August). A two-day armistice was observed...
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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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War of the Sixth Coalition: German campaign 200km 125miles 19 18 17 Leipzig 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Battle of Leipzig (French: Bataille...
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Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
battalion of reserve, stationed in Guernsey. He moved in 1805 to the 1st battalion which was leaving for Portugal. He fought in the battles of Roliça, Vimeiro...
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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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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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Lisbon Roliça Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Second Battle of Porto, also known as the...
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War of the Sixth Coalition: German campaign 200km 125miles 19 18 17 Leipzig 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 In the Battle of Lützen (German:...
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War of the Sixth Coalition: German campaign 200km 125miles 19 18 17 Leipzig 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Battle of Dresden (26–27 August...
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for the Peninsula in June 1808 and saw action at the Battle of Roliça in August 1808, the Battle of Vimeiro later in August 1808, and the retreat to Corunna...
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Anglo-Portuguese Army (category Military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
2 squadrons of the 14th Light Dragoons were present (Glover, p. 375) KGL Light Battalions Battle of Salamanca Battle of Vitoria Battles of Pyrenees, Nivelle...
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Benjamin Randell Harris (category British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars)
the first British casualty of the war. On 17 August 1808 he was in the hotly contested skirmish line at Battle of Roliça, and saw serious opposition...
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97 Battery (Lawson's Company) Royal Artillery (category British military units and formations of the Napoleonic Wars)
action at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811. The battery was replenished six months later with 6-pounders, and fought a hard battle at Salamanca...
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Charles Bulkeley Egerton (category People of the Irish Rebellion of 1798)
part in the Battle of Roliça and the Battle of Vimeiro. In 1809 Egerton transferred to the 44th Regiment of Foot where he held command of the 2nd battalion...
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