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5 unusual facts about Torres Vedras


Granby Thomas Calcraft

The brigade was frequently engaged during the retreat on Torres Vedras, and again in the pursuit of General André Masséna in March 1811.

Kazuo Dan

He lived in Santa Cruz on the seacoast west of Torres Vedras, Portugal, from 1971-1972 in a house on a street that now bears his name, Rua Professor Kazuo Dan, Nº 6.

Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai

He was imprisoned in Torres Vedras, saved from execution by John III in the hope that Duarte could yet be made to confess where he had hidden his private treasure.

Sharpe's Escape

Sharpe's Escape is the tenth novel in Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series, finding the hero embroiled in the British retreat through Portugal in 1810 from the defence of the Ridge at Bussaco to the Lines of Torres Vedras, where the French offensive was successfully halted.

While the British and their Portuguese allies see off the French assault at Bussaco, Sharpe becomes embroiled in a private feud with the criminal Ferragus, whom he pursues from the abandoned town of Coimbra back towards the massive defensive works which Wellington has ordered built at Torres Vedras.


Manuel Curto

Manuel José da Luz Correia Curto (born 9 July 1986 in Torres Vedras) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Zagłębie Lubin in the Polish Ekstraklasa, as a midfielder.

Valouro

In 1978, with the aim of complementing the poultry business, was installed a feed mill in Marteleira in the municipality of Torres Vedras, which was followed 10 years later by another unit in Ramalhal in the municipality of Torres Vedras, and then another plant near Badajoz, Spain.


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