High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! During the Peninsular War, Sobral was on the Lines of Torres Vedras, a line of forts planned by the Duke of Wellington to protect Lisbon. In October 1810, a French army led by Andre Massena approached the Lines, finding that the Portuguese had subjected the area in front of them to a scorched earth policy. After a skirmish at Sobral on October 14, the French found they could go no further. Charles Oman writes "On that misty October 14th morning, at Sobral, the Napoleonic tide attained its highest watermark."

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