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NAPIER (Carlos, Almirante). GUERRA da Successão em Portugal. Lisboa. 1841. - NAPIER (Carlos, Almirante) GUERRA da Successão em Portugal . Traduzida em Portuguez por Manoel Joaquim Pedro Codina. Lisboa: Typographia Commercial, 1841. 2 v.; X, 352, [6] pp., 3 est.; 356, [4] pp.: il.; 190 mm. First Portuguese edition of this work, translated five years after the original English An Account of the War in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel (London, 1836, 2 vols.), which is simultaneously a testimony and an attempt at an overview of the conflict that Portuguese historiography has called the Liberal Wars. Sir Charles Napier (Falkirk, 1786 – Catherington, 1860), a Scottish officer in the British Royal Navy who served for sixty years and participated in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, and the Crimean War, accepted command of the Portuguese liberal fleet in 1833 in defense of Queen Maria II, operating under the name Carlos de Ponza to circumvent the Foreign Enlistment Act . On July 5, 1833, he destroyed the much larger Miguelist fleet off Cape St. Vincent, allowing the liberals to take Lisbon. He was created Viscount and later Count Napier of São Vicente in the Portuguese nobility. Unlike most foreign accounts of the Liberal Wars, which focus only on the particular episode in which their authors participated, Napier seeks to provide a comprehensive view of the conflict from its political origins. The first volume is illustrated with three extra-text plates depicting the battle off Cape St. Vincent. The translation is by Manoel Joaquim Pedro Codina. Estimated. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate ¶ Inocêncio, v. 6, p. 20