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The secrets of the 5 other battles that saved Portugal

The secrets of the 5 other battles that saved Portugal

April 6, 1384 – Battle of Atoleiros

The good student of the English
Photos by Nuno Álvares Pereira for Visão Fig. 2 – Fresco of the Battle of Atoleiros by the painter Jaime Martins Barata (in the Palace of Justice in Fronteira, 1966. (Photograph © Johan Schelfhout)

Nuno Álvares Pereira learned from English mercenaries the tactics that decimated the French in the Hundred Years' War and, with intelligence, applied them in the first battle in which he defeated the Castilians, about a year before the decisive battle of Aljubarrota.

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