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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 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.
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
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.
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 ...
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]
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.
The Battle of Casal Novo was a rear-guard action fought on March 14, ... after a failed three-day attempt to secure Coimbra. In danger of being trapped, Massena ...