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192: 532: 136: 200: 1274: 22: 1262: 651: 570:. Póvoas routed the forces of the Count of Vila Flor, who retreated in disorder to the Alto da Bandeira. Due to the rivalry between Santa Marta and Póvoas, the Royalist troops came to be commanded by General Gaspar Teixeira, Viscount of Peso da Régua. This initiated the siege of the city, which was surrounded by a series of strongholds beginning in the Quinta da China in 578:, ending near the Senhora da Luz in the mouth of Douro, near the sea. This whole line located north of the river. To the south the lines began at Cabedelo in Canidelo, on the opposite side of the mouth of Douro, and ended at Pedra Salgada, next to the hill of the Seminar, placing fifteen batteries in this area. 558:
in a defeat that alarmed the city. Meanwhile, the Serra do Pilar was fortified by Major Sá Nogueira. Dom Pedro, who saw the impossibility of occupying the north of the country as originally he had planned, reorganized the army and created the General Staff. He dispatched
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sent his boats into the mouth of the River Douro and fought back the Royalists' fire. While protected by the Liberal fleet, the division of Lieutenant-Colonel John Schwalbach crossed the river and occupied the Serra do Pilar, in
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Meanwhile, John Schwalbach advanced with his forces to the Alto da Bandeira and placed an advanced guard at Carvalhos. The two armies remained under mutual observation, without either of them daring to make an advance.
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and found the city abandoned by the Royalist troops, whose leaders, not knowing the exact number of Liberal forces, had decided to withdraw.
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On 18 July, the first attack by the Royalists occurred, without success. Five days later the
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of Santa Marta and supreme commander of the division that operated between the Royalists
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is considered the period between July 1832 and August 1833 in which the troops of
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possible. Those that fought in the Siege of Porto on the Liberal side include
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joined forces. The two generals disposed their armies to surround the city.
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was fought, in which a Liberal column routed the Royalists and returned to
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and the troops of Dom Pedro made the victory of the liberal cause in the
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