# Trant's raid
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{{Short description|1810 recapture during the Peninsular War}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{Use shortened footnotes|date=May 2021}}
{{Infobox military conflict
|conflict=Trant's Raid
|partof=the [Peninsular War](/source/Peninsular_War)
|image=Sunset Light on Coimbra (10249113315) (cropped).jpg
|caption=Coimbra
|date=6 October 1810{{sfn|Smith|1998|p=348}}
|place=[Coimbra](/source/Coimbra), Portugal
|coordinates={{coord|40|12|N|8|25|W}}
|territory=
|result=Portuguese victory
|combatant2={{flagicon|France}} [French Empire](/source/First_French_Empire)
|combatant1={{flagicon image|Flag Portugal (1750).svg}} [Portugal](/source/Kingdom_of_Portugal)
|commander2=Unknown
|commander1={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [Nicholas Trant](/source/Nicholas_Trant)
|strength2=Unknown
|strength1=4,000 Portuguese militia
|casualties2= 8 killed
4,000 captured
|casualties1= 3 killed
26 wounded
|notes=
}}
{{Campaignbox Peninsular War (1810-1811)}}
{{Campaignbox Portugal in the Napoleonic Wars}}
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3.1 [Blockade of Almeida](/source/Blockade_of_Almeida) April 1811
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'''Trant's raid''' was the Portuguese recapture of the city of [Coimbra](/source/Coimbra) from the French on 6 October 1810 during the [Peninsular War](/source/Peninsular_War). The assault was undertaken by a Portuguese militia led by Colonel [Nicholas Trant](/source/Nicholas_Trant), an Irish officer in the British Army.{{sfn|Cobbett|1810|pp=1051–1055}}
==Battle==
[Marshal](/source/Marshal_of_France) [André Masséna](/source/Andr%C3%A9_Mass%C3%A9na)'s army had captured Coimbra and established a base there. On 7 October Trant and 4,000 Portuguese militia recaptured the city. French losses were 8 killed and 400 able-bodied soldiers captured. About 3,500 sick and wounded, plus several hundred medical and service personnel also surrendered.{{Cn|date=February 2023}} Trant's losses were only 3 men killed and another 26 men wounded.{{Cn|date=February 2023}}
center|thumb|Wellingtons retreat from Coimbra
==Aftermath==
As the new governor of the city, he remained in possession of the city all winter while the French carried out their futile blockade of the [Lines of Torres Vedras](/source/Lines_of_Torres_Vedras){{sfn|Smith|1998|p=378}}
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book| last=Cobbett | year=1810 | title=Cobbett's Political Register | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vMpkF9XLJDsC&pg=PA1051 | publisher=Cox and Baylis}}
* {{cite book | last=Smith | first=Digby | year=1998 | title=The Napoleonic Wars Data Book | publisher=Greenhill | isbn=1853672769}}
==External links==
* {{commons-inline}}
Category:Battles of the Peninsular War involving Portugal
Category:Battles of the Peninsular War involving the United Kingdom
Category:Military raids
Category:History of Coimbra
Category:Conflicts in 1810
Category:1810 in Portugal
Category:October 1810
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