At 25, he left the war council and chose the battlefield himself.
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Not kings or generals, but craftsmen, merchants, sailors and townspeople whose stories made it into the chronicles almost by chance.
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Hidden stories: 4.
Hidden stories: 2.
Avis and the Discoveries3 stories2 stories
Porto gave away its meat, kept the tripe, and got a nickname.
The Pope was given an elephant, and the elephant knelt before him.
Pombal and the Earthquake5 stories2 stories3 stories
After the earthquake, the Baixa's streets were shared out among the trades.
Lisbon's oldest café was opened by the king's own ice-master.
Thousands fled over a bridge made of boats. It gave way.
Portugal spent a year building forts the French barely knew existed.
After Russia, about a hundred of Napoleon's Portuguese Legion were left.
