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Turning point · The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848
Lines of Torres Vedras
1810–11 — Wellington vanishes behind 150 hidden forts before Lisbon and lets hunger do the fighting: Masséna loses 25,000 men without a battle.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Empire and Its Cracks in The Age of Revolutions, 1775–1848.
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