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Neale - NEALE (Adam) LETTERS from Portugal and Spain . Comprising an account of the armies under their Excellencies Sir Arthur Wellesley and Sir John Moore from the Landing of the troops in Mondego bay to the Battle at Corunna. London: Printed for Richard Philips, 1809. XVI, 348, 116 pp., 1 mapa, 12 gravs.: il.; 280 mm. One of the rarest works in the bibliography known as ”Foreigners on Portugal.” The engravings include: a map of the troops' itinerary, the Battle of Vimeira, the Moorish Castle at Torres Vedras, a Distant View of Mafra and the Cintra Mountains, the Castle of Punhete on the banks of the Tagus River, the Bridge over the River Nissa amid the Sierra de St. Miguel Mountains, the Pass of Villa Velha on the Tagus River, the Bridge over the Coa River near Almeida, the Roman Bridge at Salamanca, the Pass in the Sierra de Sevadon near Molina Seca, the Bridge near Constantine, the City of Lugo, and the Battle of Corunna. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !