Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Battle of Sabugal was an engagement of the Peninsular War which took place...
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17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Bar-sur-Aube 1 The Battle of Château-Thierry (12 February 1814) saw the Imperial French army commanded by Emperor...
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André Masséna (redirect from Andre, Duke de Rivoli, Prince D'essling Massena)
crushing defeats at the battles of Sabugal and Fuentes de Oñoro, Napoleon sacked and replaced Masséna with Marshal Auguste de Marmont, and Masséna did not serve...
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Eugène Rose de Beauharnais (French: [øʒɛn də boaʁnɛ]; 3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was a French nobleman, statesman, and military commander who...
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Prince Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (baptised 27 December [O.S. 16 December] 1761 – 26 May [O.S. 14 May] 1818) was a Russian field marshal who figured...
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Miguel Ricardo de Álava y Esquivel KCB MWO (7 July 1770 – 14 July 1843) was a Spanish General and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Spain in 1835...
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Louis-Alexandre Berthier (redirect from Louis-Alexandre, Prince de Wagram Berthier)
first abdication, Berthier retired to Château de Grosbois, his 600-acre (2.4 km2) estate at Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne. He made peace with Louis XVIII...
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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 military...
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Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro An invasion of Portugal by French and Spanish forces occurred...
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Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro At the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro (3–5 May 1811), the Anglo-Portuguese Army under...
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Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont, duc de Raguse (French pronunciation: [oɡyst fʁedeʁik lwi vjɛs də maʁmɔ̃]; 20 July 1774 – 22 March 1852) was a...
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left Paris three days later and settled at Joséphine's former palace in Château de Malmaison. By 28 June, the Prussian army was at Senlis, just north of...
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John VI of Portugal (redirect from João Maria José Francisco Xavier de Paula Luís António Domingos Rafael de Bragança)
the United Kingdom of Portugal ceased to exist de facto beginning in 1822, he remained its monarch de jure between 1822 and 1825. After the recognition...
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Ferdinand VII (redirect from Fernando VII de España)
thereafter Napoleon kept Ferdinand under guard in France for six years at the Château de Valençay. Historian Charles Oman records that the choice of Valençay was...
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Michel Ney (redirect from Michel, Duc D'elchingen, Prince de la Moskowa Ney)
Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (pronounced [miʃɛl nɛ]; 10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander...
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Louis-Nicolas Davout (category Mayors of places in Île-de-France)
Napoleon received him coldly but left Paris the next day and resided at Château de Malmaison until 29 June when he departed for Rochfort. In later years...
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(1730–1786) by his marriage to Wilhelmine Mumm in Solingen. She died at the Château de Soult-Berg on 22 March 1852. The couple had three children:[citation needed]...
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Jean Lannes (redirect from Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello)
made such use of him again. Lannes purchased the seventeenth-century Château de Maisons, near Paris, in 1804 and had one of its state apartments redecorated...
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Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco TorresVedras Redinha Sabugal FuentesDeOñoro The Battle of Buçaco (pronounced [buˈsaku]) or Bussaco, fought...
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Vimeiro 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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French seized a château, nearly capturing Blücher. However, the French were unable to dislodge the Russians from the town of Brienne-le-Château. Napoleon himself...
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List of motor racing tracks (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Sabugal, Sabugal Circuito Urbano de Faro, Faro Pista de Torre de Moncorvo, Torre de Moncorvo Pista Pinhel, Pinhel Trofeu Urbano Foz Côa, Vila Nova de...
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Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (redirect from Pierre Charles Silvestre de Villeneuve)
Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve (31 December 1763 – 22 April 1806) was a French Navy officer who served during the French Revolutionary...
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Gothic architecture (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
minister of Louis XII, built the Chateau of Gaillon near Rouen (1502–1510) with the assistance of Italian craftsmen. The Château de Blois (1515–1524) introduced...
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Battle of Montmirail (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
division where the Château-Thierry road met the main east-west highway, with Defrance's cavalry on his right. Farther north, blocking the Château-Thierry road...
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Siege of Almeida (1810) (category Battles inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe)
Vimeiro Chaves Braga Grijó Porto Almeida Bussaco Torres Vedras Redinha Sabugal Fuentes de Oñoro In the siege of Almeida, Portugal, the French corps of Marshal...
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Ciudad 7 Talavera 6 Corunna 5 Tudela 4 Bailén 3 Valencia 2 Madrid 1 The Dos de Mayo or Second of May Uprising took place in Madrid, Spain, on 2–3 May 1808...
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Shortly after that battle, Nelson took part in the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where the attack failed and he lost his right arm, forcing him to...
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Ferreira Borges de Castro (1857). Supplemeto á Collecção dos tratados, convenções, contratos e actos publicos celebrados entre a corôa de Portugal e as...
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Napoleonic Wars (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
"BERGUÑO HURTADO, Fernando. Los soldados de Napoleón en la Independencia de Chile. 1817–1830". Revista de historia americana y argentina (in Spanish)...
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