Fuences de Oñoro, a small village of Salamanca, Spain, on the Portuguese frontier, 15 miles WSW. of Ciudad Rodrigo, was the scene of an important battle of the Peninsular war on the 5th May 1811, when Wellington defeated Massena. The English lost 2000, the French 5000.
Fuences de Oñoro
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 25
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