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The Battle of Buçaco (pronounced) or Bussaco was fought on 27 September 1810 during the Peninsular War in the Portuguese mountain range of Serra do Buçaco, ...
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At the entrance of the old convent, there is a plaque to the Battle of Bussaco which commemorates the fact that Viscount Wellington, who later became the Duke of Wellington, spent the night in the convent after the battle on 27 September 1810.
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This is the order of battle for the Battle of Bussaco, 27 September 1810. French Army of Portugal. Commander-in-Chief: Marshal Masséna.
Wellington stayed at the convent in Buçaco Forest during the days preceding the battle; an olive tree to which he tethered his horse still stands and is labelled "Wellington's olive tree". [ 10 ] Soon after the abolition of religious orders in 1834, ownership and management of the forest was transferred to the Administração Geral das Matas ...
William Barnes Wollen: Norman Ramsay at Fuentes d'Onores (1922). In 1809 Ramsay was posted to I Troop (Bull's) of the Royal Horse Artillery, and went with it to Portugal. It was engaged at Busaco in 1810, and was specially thanked by Sir Stapleton Cotton, for its zeal and activity in covering the subsequent retreat to Torres Vedras.
Images of Jesus tend to show ethnic characteristics similar to those of the culture in which the image has been created. Beliefs that certain images are historically authentic, or have acquired an authoritative status from Church tradition, remain powerful among some of the faithful, in Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Roman ...