Chapter XIX: Portugal threatened by the French 214

Preparations of the English for evacuating Lisbon 214

Address of the Portugueze Regency to the nation 215

State of public feeling at Lisbon 216

Marshal Soult ordered to enter Portugal from Galicia 218

Difficulty of providing for the French army 219

His confidence of success 220

Combined plans of the French 220

Vigo and Tuy occupied by the French 221

Preparations for crossing the Minho below Tuy 221

Failure of the attempt 223

Soult marches by way of Orense 223

Romana rouses the Galicians 224

Opinion of his strength 225

Villages burnt by the French 226

Intended plan of co-operation between Romana and Silveira 226

Difference between Marshals Soult and Ney 227

Rout of Romana’s army 228

The French remove their sick and wounded to Monterrey 229

Situation of Chaves 230

Silveira retires from Chaves 231

Some mutinous officers resolve to defend it 232

Surrender of Chaves 232

The French establish their hospital there 234

Preparations for defence at Porto 235

Advance of the French from Chaves 237

Tumults at Braga 238

General Freire murdered 240

The Portugueze routed before Braga 242

The French enter Braga 243

They appear before Porto 245

Oliveira murdered 246

The Bishop leaves the city 247

Porto taken 247

Massacre there 248

Soult remains in Porto 250

Disposition of the inhabitants 251

Marshal Soult’s views respecting the Liberals and the Jews 252

His hopes of becoming King of Northern Lusitania 254

He visits the Church of N. Senhor de Bouças 256

Chaves retaken by Silveira 260

Proceedings at Coimbra 262

Colonel Trant takes a position upon the Vouga 265

Cruelties of the French 268

Positions of the French and Portugueze 269

Romana captures the garrison at Villa Franca 270

Efforts of the Galicians 273

Barrios sent into Galicia 275

The Portugueze and Galicians blockade Tuy 276

Vigo 277

The Spaniards appear before Vigo 278

Recapture of that place 279

Blockade of Tuy 283

The Portugueze recross the Minho 284

The French in Tuy relieved and withdrawn 284