Battle of Grijó
| Battle of Grijó | |||||||
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| Part of the Peninsular War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom Portugal
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 French Empire
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General Lord Wellesley
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Marshal Nicolas Soult
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| Strength | |||||||
| 8,500 | 5,400 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 106 | 250 | ||||||
The Battle of Grijó (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡɾiˈʒɔ]) (10–11 May 1809) was a battle that ended in victory for the Anglo-Portuguese Army commanded by Sir Arthur Wellesley (the future 1st Duke of Wellington) over the French army commanded by Marshal Nicolas Soult during the second French invasion of Portugal in the Peninsular War. The next day, Wellesley drove Soult from Porto in the Second Battle of Porto.
In "The History of the Rifle Brigade", Willoughby Verner describes how the ad hoc 1st Battalion of Detachments, made from soldiers and officers of multiple regiments who had become stranded with the evacuation of Coruna, fought for the first time near the village of Grijó (Vila Nova de Gaia):
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