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Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro May 1811 Trant's Raid was the Portuguese recapture of the city of Coimbra from the French on 6 October 1810 during the Peninsular War . The assault was undertaken by a Portuguese militia led by Colonel Nicholas Trant , an Irish officer in the British Army.
The siege of Coimbra in 1064 or the definitive conquest of Coimbra by Christian forces took place in 1064, from January to July; it ended on 9 July 1064, [contradictory] a Friday, when the king, Ferdinand I of Leon, captured the city from the Muslims. The city of Coimbra had previously been taken from the Christians by Almanzor (or al-Manṣūr) in
On that day, Junot received new orders urging him to hurry. The normal invasion route is a corridor 200 miles (322 km) in length via Almeida and Coimbra. Instead, Junot was instructed to move west from Alcántara along the Tagus valley to Portugal, a distance of only 120 miles (193 km). Anxious that Britain might intervene in Portugal or that ...
The siege of Coimbra of 1117 was a military engagement between the forces of the Almoravid dynasty and those of the County of Portugal in the city of Coimbra. In 1117, the Almoravids launched a campaign into the County of Portugal to attack the city of Coimbra and withdrew after failing to capture it.
After the successful defense of Coimbra, Teresa henceforth signed as "queen". Templar cross. In 1128, the Templars settled in Portugal after Teresa donated the Castle of Soure to the Order. [19] The castle had been erected close to Coimbra in the second half of the 11th century by Sisnando Davides, on the road that connected Coimbra to Lisbon. [20]
The Battle of Casal Novo was a rear-guard action fought on March 14, 1811, during Massena's retreat from Portugal. During this retreat a French division, under command of Michel Ney, conducted a series of sharp rear-guard actions.
The previous day the French forces had pushed back the Anglo-Portuguese Army at the Battle of the Côa. The 50,000-man Anglo-Portuguese Army under General Lord Wellington now held the far bank of the Coa. However, the river's banks were steep, with only two bridges, and the French 6th Corps guarded the crossings, so the Anglo-Portuguese Army ...
981 – Count Gonçalo Moniz of Coimbra dies. 982 – Bermudo II becomes King of León, having been acclaimed by the Counts of Galicia and anointed in Santiago de Compostela. 987 Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir lays waste to Coimbra, seizes the castles north of the Douro River, and reaches at the city of Santiago de Compostela. The city had been ...