First, in Abrantes and skirmishes near it, while the French were in front of the lines of Lisbon; secondly, at both the sieges of Badajoz in 1811, at the cavalry affair of El Boden, and in the trenches before Ciudad Rodrigo; and thirdly, at the siege of Badajoz in 1812, when he led on the Portuguese column of the 4th division to the assault of the breach of the curtain, and was severely wounded.
Barata gained experience with slave labor as a farmer of cane sugar in the town of Abrantes (current Camaçari).
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Arnaldo Luís Isaías Abrantes (born 7 November 1986 in Cova da Piedade), is a Portuguese track and field sprinter, specializing in the distances of 100 metres and 200 metres.