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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Account of the campaigns of the British Army unit manned primarily by Portuguese emigres who fought in the Peninsular War with distinction before being transferred to the Portuguese Army proper. Reprint of the 1812 original. viii, 346pp.

Facsimile of 1812 edn., 346pp. Sir Robert Wilson raised the Loyal Lusitanian Legion at Oporto in 1808, consisting of 3 Portuguese battalions of light infantry, a squadron of horse & part of a battery. It did good service 1809-1810 & was then absorbed into the regular Portuguese army. pbk reprint.