Excerpt from A Treatise on the Defence of Portugal: With a Military Map of the Country; To Which Is Added, a Sketch of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, and Principal Events of the Campaigns Under Lord Wellington With these preliminary observations, I offer my first essay to the world; trusting to the candour of my brother officers as to the mhfi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.