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First Battle of Porto
Part of the Peninsular War
Marshall Soult surveys the broken bridge as Oporto falls to the French on 29 March 1809. In the foreground a grenadier rescues an orphaned baby.
In the First Battle of Porto (29 March 1809) the French under Marshal Soult defeated the Portuguese, under General Parreiras, outside the city of Porto[a] during the Peninsular War. Soult followed up his success by storming the city.[3]
^ abcBodart 1908, p. 395.
^ abButtery 2016, p. 55.
^Esdaile 2003, p. 164.
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