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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.
Nicholas Trant (1769-1839) was a British Army officer of Irish descent who led Portuguese irregular troops in several actions during the Peninsular War.His best known exploits were the recapture of Coimbra from the French in October 1810 and the successful defense of the line of the Mondego River in March 1811.
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.
Also known as the Battle of Póvoa de Lanhoso or Battle of Carvalho d'Este. 20 March 1809 Combat of Berrocal: Cáceres, Extremadura: Spanish victory Henestrosa, as the rearguard of Cuesta's Army of Estremadura and faced with Lasalle pressing him, made a sudden halt and drove in the leading squadron of the French by a charge of his Royal Carbineers.
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
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result; Battle of Aguioncha (966) . Location: Iberian Peninsula County of Portugal: Kingdom of Galicia: Victory. Culmination of a Galician–Portuguese civil war in the Kingdom of León.
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 New Coimbra Fort, also known as Fort Portocarrero [a] or simply Fort Coimbra, is a Brazilian military fortification on the Paraguay River, strategically located near the border with Bolivia and Paraguay in Corumbá, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil.