 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Tuff ends tour best of British
; Justin Tuff ended his tour of Portugal on a high note at the Vimeiro O C where he finished best of the British on Karen O'Brien's Retro in the Grande Premio Turismo de Portugal 1.55m and clinched...
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Fighting the enemy within
; ...20th century. It is hard to imagine the Duke of Wellington putting a comradely arm round a shaking soldier, running away from Vimeiro or Salamanca and muttering sadly: "Shell-shocked, of course." He had him shot. In the 20th century, however, the question of...
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The Peninsular War: a New History.(Book Review)
; ...most of his chapters after places associated with events that have served as the traditional milestones of the war--Bailen, Vimeiro, La Coruna, Talavera, Badajoz, and Vitoria, among others. As each chapter proceeds, however, Esdaile confounds the reader's...
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Golfing in Portugal RONNIE CULLY enjoys playing around at new golf resorts in the Lisbon area
; ...make it worth a visit. For those even more sporty, Tivoli can offer the Hotel Golf Mar up the coast at the seaside spa town of Vimeiro. A favourite of Lisbon residents escaping the city for the weekend, the sight of breakers crashing in on the wide beach is...
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The Subaltern: A Chronicle of the Peninsular War / Voices from the Peninsula: Eyewitness Accounts by Soldiers of Wellington's Army 1808-14 / The Battle of Maida 1806: Fifteen Minutes of Glory
; ...British accounts of campaigning in Portugal and Spain from the moment of Wellington's first brushes with the French at Rolica and Vimeiro. Whether this collection throws new light on his army, as the dustjacket claims, is open to doubt, since almost all this material...
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Paul Pry's noble duke: Mark Bryant describes how a nosey parker drew some inspiration from Old Nosey's career.(CARTOON TIMES)(William Heath's caricatures of the Duke of Wellington )
; ...British general cutting off the pigtail of General Andoche Junot, the defeated commander of the French forces at the battle of Vimeiro, near Lisbon. After Waterloo, Wellington was appointed commander-in-chief of the British Army, but was forced to give up this...
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Mastery of time and space
; ...regards, for instance, the Convention of Sintra - which allowed the French to leave Portugal under arms after their defeat at Vimeiro in 1808, and which almost spelled the end for the promising Sir Arthur Wellesley - as a good job given the overall strategic...
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(book review)
; ...possess Napoleon's astonishing strategic originality, but he was a truly great defensive general. As Roberts says, he learned at Vimeiro, that 'a well-led and disciplined line of British infantry firing accurately by company could hold back a French column', a...
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Top-class field prepares to light up Bramham
; ...foals to three-year-olds. The Whitaker family could also be seen on top form in Portugal at the weekend when Robert won the Vimeiro Grand Prix. Riding Clare Whitaker's 13- year-old brown gelding Lacroix 9, he jumped the fastest double clear of the five strong...
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The Bayonet on the Battlefield
; ...1806 was denied by eyewitnesses.9 Sir William Napier, the historian of the Peninsular War, admitted that after the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808, the sergeant-armourer of the 43rd Regiment and a French soldier were found transfixed on each other's bayonets, but...
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