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[[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[André Masséna]]’s army had captured Coimbra and established a base there. On 7 October Trant and 4,000 Portuguese militia recaptured the city. French losses were 8 killed and 400 able-bodied soldiers captured. About 3,500 sick and wounded, plus several hundred medical and service personnel also surrendered.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} Trant’s losses were only 3 men killed and another 26 men wounded.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} |
[[Marshal of France|Marshal]] [[André Masséna]]’s army had captured Coimbra and established a base there. On 7 October Trant and 4,000 Portuguese militia recaptured the city. French losses were 8 killed and 400 able-bodied soldiers captured. About 3,500 sick and wounded, plus several hundred medical and service personnel also surrendered.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} Trant’s losses were only 3 men killed and another 26 men wounded.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} |
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[[File:Paul Hardy – Wellingtons retreat from Coimbra, AD 1810.jpg|center|thumb|Wellingtons retreat from Coimbra]] |
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Trant’s raid was the Portuguese recapture of the city of Coimbra from the French on 6 October 1810 during the Peninsular War. The assault was undertaken by a Portuguese militia led by Colonel Nicholas Trant, an Irish officer in the British Army.
Marshal André Masséna‘s army had captured Coimbra and established a base there. On 7 October Trant and 4,000 Portuguese militia recaptured the city. French losses were 8 killed and 400 able-bodied soldiers captured. About 3,500 sick and wounded, plus several hundred medical and service personnel also surrendered.[citation needed] Trant’s losses were only 3 men killed and another 26 men wounded.[citation needed]
As the new governor of the city, he remained in possession of the city all winter while the French carried out their futile blockade of the Lines of Torres Vedras
