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... guard - house . The whole of this road is calculated for the operations of light troops and armed peasantry . No artillery can pass by it , provided it meets with any kind . of opposition ; at any rate , much time would be lost in ...
... guard - house . The whole of this road is calculated for the operations of light troops and armed peasantry . No artillery can pass by it , provided it meets with any kind . of opposition ; at any rate , much time would be lost in ...
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... guard the frontier , are , by this line of " march , turned and rendered useless . A passage along the banks of the Tagus is Cr 66 easily forced , for there the walls and for- " tresses are in a state of neglect and ruin . " In answer ...
... guard the frontier , are , by this line of " march , turned and rendered useless . A passage along the banks of the Tagus is Cr 66 easily forced , for there the walls and for- " tresses are in a state of neglect and ruin . " In answer ...
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... guard , and nearly 100,000 armed peasantry or ordenença . Twenty thousand of the regular troops are paid by Great Britain , and to each regiment , constituting a part of that force , a proportion of British officers † are attached ...
... guard , and nearly 100,000 armed peasantry or ordenença . Twenty thousand of the regular troops are paid by Great Britain , and to each regiment , constituting a part of that force , a proportion of British officers † are attached ...
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... guards turn out bare headed and kneeling , with the point of the bayonet to the ground . The officers and soldiers of the · British army halt and take off their hats , but do not kneel . The Inquisition , formerly the scourge of the ...
... guards turn out bare headed and kneeling , with the point of the bayonet to the ground . The officers and soldiers of the · British army halt and take off their hats , but do not kneel . The Inquisition , formerly the scourge of the ...
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... guard over it till the good Christians of the neighbourhood carried it away and buried it in a certain spot , till the middle of the 12th century , when Alfonso I. king of Portugal , having rescued Lisbon from the hands of the Moors ...
... guard over it till the good Christians of the neighbourhood carried it away and buried it in a certain spot , till the middle of the 12th century , when Alfonso I. king of Portugal , having rescued Lisbon from the hands of the Moors ...
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Abrantes Alemtejo Almeida Amarante arrived artillery attack bank battalion battle of Vimiera Beira Braga Bragança bridge brigade Brigadier-General British army carriages Castello Branco castle cavalry Celorico Chaves Ciudad Rodrigo Coimbra Colonel combined army commanded consequence convent corps crossed defence detached distance division Douro Douro e Minho Dumouriez Elvas enemy enemy's English Estremadura Estremoz Evora flank fortified fortress French army garrison Guadiana guard Guimaraens guns heights horses infantry Junot kingdom latter leagues Leiria Lippe Lisbon Lord Wellington Major-General Marquis de Pombal Marshal miles military Mondego Montes mountains mules obliged officers Oporto ordenença passes pieces of cannon PINHEL Ponte Portalegre Portugal Portuguese army position province rear regiment retreat road Route Royal Salamonde Santa Santarem Serra situated Soult Spain Spaniards Spanish Tagus Talavera Tamega THOMAR tion Torres town tugal Valença Valença do Minho valley Venda Villa Nova Villa Real whilst whole wounded Zezere
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Sida 204 - Vimeiro stands in a valley, through which runs the river Maceira; at the back, and to the westward and northward of this village, is a mountain, the western point of which touches the sea, and the eastern is separated by a deep ravine from the heights, over which passes the road which leads from Lourinha, and the northward to Vimeiro.
Sida 259 - At six in the morning of the 27th, the enemy made two desperate attacks upon our position, the one on the right, the other on the left of the highest point of the Sierra.
Sida 207 - The 2d battalion, 43d regiment, was likewise closely engaged with them in the road which leads into Vimiera ; a part of that corps having been ordered into the church-yard to prevent them from penetrating into the town. On the right of the position they were repulsed by the bayonets of the 97th regiment, which corps was successfully supported by the 2d battalion 52d regiment, which, by an advance in column, took the enemy in flank.
Sida 262 - Sardao, with the intention that he should occupy these mountains, but unfortunately he was sent round by Oporto, by the general officer commanding in the north, in consequence of a small detachment of the enemy being in possession of St.
Sida 261 - Macbean, made a gallant and successful charge upon a body of another division of the enemy, which was endeavouring to penetrate in that quarter. In this attack...
Sida 209 - Ferguson's brigade, six pieces of cannon were taken from the enemy, with many prisoners, and vast numbers were killed and wounded. The enemy afterwards made an attempt to recover...
Sida 260 - Champelmond, directed by Colonel MacKinnon ; Major-General Leith also moved to his left, to the support of Major-General Picton, and aided in the defeat of the enemy on this post by the 3d battalion Royals, the 1st battalion, and the 2d battalion 38th regiment.
Sida 208 - Taylor was unfortunately killed. Nearly at the same time the enemy's attack commenced upon the heights on the road to Lourinha — This attack was supported by a large body of cavalry, and was made with the usual impetuosity of the French troops.
Sida 204 - On the eastern and southern side of the town is a hill which is entirely commanded, particularly on its right, by the mountain to the westward of the town, and commanding all the ground in the neighbourhood to the southward and .eastward, on which...
Sida 203 - I have above stated, with a view to cover the retreat of his defeated army ; in all of which he was, however, repulsed ; but he succeeded in effecting his retreat in good order, owing, principally, to my want of cavalry, and, secondly, to the difficulty of bringing up the passes of the mountains with celerity, a sufficient number of troops, and of cannon to support those which had first ascended. The loss of the enemy, has, however, been very great, and he left three pieces of cannon in our hands....