Torres-Vedras, a town of the Portuguese province of Estremadura, 26 miles N. of Lisbon by rail. It is known from those famous lines of defence within which Wellington defended himself the winter of 1810-11 against Masséna. There were three such lines of fortification; and the area within the lines was about 500 sq. m. Hence Wellington issued on that career of slow and hard-won victory which ended in the expulsion of the French from the Peninsula. Pop. 4926.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 249
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