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Portugal, despite being a relatively minor power for much of its history, has managed to become involved in numerous wars, fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, World War One, and in Iraq. The Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. ...
Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
The Napoleonic War
During the Napoleonic Wars, Portugal was, for a time, Britain's only ally on the continent. French troops invaded Portugal, taking Lisbon in 1807, after their refusal to participate in the Continental System. However, British troops under Arthur Wellesley made their way to the Iberian peninsula, where, aided by Portuguese troops and the Spanish military, they forced Napoleon himself to deploy troops to the Peninsula. The British were mostly trounced, but managed to extricate themselves from the Peninsula in the Battle of La Coruña. Portugal itself, however, remained independent, and Napoleon left things in the hands of Marshal Soult. The Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. ...
Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal. ...
1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
The Continental System was a foreign-policy cornerstone of Napoleon I of France in his struggle against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. ...
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769–14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century. ...
topographic map of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ...
The Kingdom of Spain or Spain (Spanish and Galician: Reino de España or España; Catalan: Regne dEspanya; Basque: Espainiako Erresuma) is a country located in the southwest of Europe. ...
For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ...
The Battle of Corunna took place on January 16, 1809, between 14,000 British under Sir John Moore, and 16,000 French under Marshal Soult, who was endeavouring to prevent the British from evacuating by sea from the port. ...
Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, marshal of France Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, duc de Dalmatie (March 29, 1760 - November 26, 1851), marshal of France, was born at Saint-Arnans-la-Bastide (now in department of the Tarn), and was the son of a country notary at that place. ...
The Second and Third invasions Soult proceeded to invade Portugal in the north. However, the Portuguese held on, giving the British the impetus to send Wellesley back with additional regiments of troops to help recover the Iberian peninsula. Wellesley, aided by the remaining Portuguese regiments hastily scraped together and by Spanish guerrillas, liberated Portugal. A third invasion took place, led by Marshal Andre Masséna. The Anglo-Portuguese forces managed to successfully defeat Masséna's troops, and slowly recovered the Iberian peninsula.
Colonizing Africa In the 19th Century, Portugal became involved in the scramble for Africa, taking Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese Cabinda, and Guinea-Bissau. However, during World War One, a glorified raid by Paul von Lettow Vorbeck's remaining troops managed to penetrate relatively far into Mozambique, seizing arms, capturing troops, and sparking unrest among the native populations there and in Angola. By the end of World War One, much of the remaining equipment of Lettow-Vorbeck's men was Portuguese arms. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Scramble for Africa was the period between the 1880s and the start of World War I, when colonial empires in Africa were acquired faster than anywhere else on the globe. ...
Angolan province and Republic of the Congo, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...
General Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck (March 20, 1870 - March 9, 1964) was the commander of the German East Africa campaign in World War I, the only campaign of that war where Germany remained undefeated. ...
World War One in Europe Portugal also sent two divisions to France, which fought with the British XI Corps. German offensives in the British sector hit the Portuguese hard, with one division ruined in the Battle of La Lys, as it became known in Portugal, or Operation Georgette or the Battle of Estaires to the British. In the Treaty of Versailles, the Portuguese acquired the port of Kionga from what was once German East Africa. A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around 10,000 soldiers. ...
The Battle of the Lys was part of the 1918 German Operation Georgette offensive in Flanders during the First World War. ...
The Battle of the Lys was part of the 1918 German Operation Georgette offensive in Flanders during the First World War. ...
Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is the peace treaty created as a result of six months of negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 which put an official end to World War I between the Allies and Central Powers. ...
The Kionga Triangle was a tiny territory on the border between German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) and Mozambique, totalling just 1000 km² (400 mi²). ...
German East Africa was Germanys colony in East Africa, including what is now Burundi, Rwanda, and the mainland part of Tanzania. ...
The Post-War Era Portugal remained steadfastedly neutral in World War II, but became involved in bloody wars against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. However, the dictator of Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar, was determined to keep the colonies under Portuguese control, and managed to keep control until the 1970s. Portugal was a founding member of NATO, and, although it played only a small role, it had a role to play nonetheless. Portugal committed 128 military policemen to Iraq, although the death of a Portuguese technician in an attack by insurgents had led the Portuguese to consider withdrawl. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
Antonio Salazar on July 22, 1946 issue of Time Magazine António de Oliveira Salazar ( April 28, 1889— July 27, 1970) was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968, noted for the dictatorial nature of his government. ...
Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution...
NATO 2002 Summit The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on April 4, 1949. ...
Military police (MPs) are the police of a military organization, generally concerning themselves with law enforcement and security. ...
For a definition of the Technician profession, see wiktionary:Technician. ...
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