Napoleão
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h_raky
N 39° 24.402 W 009° 08.140
29S E 488319 N 4361918
monument to the brave that this location is directly opposed to Napoleon.
Waymark Code: WMA3C0
Location: Leiria, Portugal
Date Posted: 11/09/2010
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The division of General Margarona, with about 4,000 men was sent to Leiria he held on July 5 after eliminating the resistance offered by its inhabitants, poorly armed, and many died as a result of looting and carnage that followed. At least 900 died about Portuguese. Tomar was spared the looting because they paid a heavy contribution. Despite these acts of repression, there was the uprising in Alcobaça where Junot sent Loison and Kellermann. Margarona joined these forces and, according to the French report, on July 10 defeated and routed a force of 15,000 Portuguese. Coimbra was the next target if it had not been sighted off in the direction of Lisbon, a large British fleet. Moreover, there were rumors - and it did not pass - a force that Portuguese and Spanish and was heading south, before this new situation, the French forces back in London after leaving a brigade in the region of Peniche, Obidos and Caldas da Rainha.
In Caldas da Rainha, the place he now calls hands-Square April 25, Napoleonic troops suffered enough strength after a few hours to battle the resistance was eliminated and Napoleon to keep its strength killed seven leaders Caldas.
The story says that Napoleon himself who beheaded them.
This is the monument that you see in the picture.
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