The Battle of Buçaco (pron. IPA [bu.'sa.ku]) was a battle of the Peninsular War, fought by British and Portuguese forces under the command of Lord Wellington on September 27, 1810, to check French pursuit of his retreat to the Lines of Torres Vedras. Combatants Kingdom of Spain, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Portugal French Empire The Peninsular War or Spanish War of Independence (Guerra de la Independencia Española) was a war in the Iberian Peninsula. ... September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Luso may be: a term used to describe a person of any sort of Portuguese origins, including all former colonies, such as Brazil and Cape Verde a prefix meaning Portuguese (after the Roman province of Lusitania, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal) Luso a Portuguese village of the municipality of Mealhada... 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Battle

Having occupied the heights of Buçaco (a 10-mile long ridge) with 25,000 British and the same number of Portuguese, he was attacked five times successively by 65,000 French under Marshal Masséna. Masséna was uncertain as to the disposition and strength of the opposing forces because Wellington deployed them on the reverse slope of the ridge, where they could neither be easily seen or easily softened up with artillery. The actual assaults were delivered by the corps of Marshal Ney and General Reynier, but after much fierce fighting they failed to dislodge the allied forces and were driven off with a loss of 4,500 killed or wounded, as against Anglo-Portuguese losses of about 1,250. Serra de Bussaco, (also Buçaco or Busaco) is a mountain range on the frontiers of Portugal, formerly included in the province of Beira. ... André Masséna, Marshal of France André Masséna (May 6, 1758, Nice – April 4, 1817), Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling, was a French soldier in the armies of Napoleon and a Marshal of France. ... Michel Ney, Marshal of France. ...

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Massena then moved off to the right to flank the position, and Wellesley resumed the retreat of his army into previously fortified lines at Torres Vedras by October 10. Finding them too strong to attack, Masséna withdrew into winter quarters. Deprived of food for his men and harried by British hit-and-run tactics, he lost a further 25,000 men captured or dead from starvation or sickness before he retreated into Spain early in 1811. Wellington had now freed Portugal from French occupation except for Almeida, near the frontier. October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years). ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Location    - Country Portugal    - Region Centro  - Subregion Beira Interior Norte  - District or A.R. Guarda Mayor António Ribeiro  - Party PSD Area 518. ...

Trivia

This was the first major battle of the Peninsular War in which units of the reconstituted Portuguese Army fought.