The peasants of this district are of a stout and hardy constitution, they are said to be capable of great exertion, and patient under fatigue
The ordinary dress of a Peasant of Torres Vedras.
Category: Portugal
Torres Vedras, a city of great antiquity, and the chief of a corregidoria.
The Lines of Torres Vedras were a triple fortification line of forts around the capital of Portugal.
Oxcart of the Portuguese Province of Extremadura
The Portuguese Oxcart of Estremadura has the appearance of a primitive invention.
Landing of the English troops in the Bay of Maceira.
THE fleet with the troops came to an anchor in the open sea, off this Creek, on the 25th of August, 1808.