"NOT neutral" you say? Then on whose side did your country's armed forces fight during WW2 Sertorio?
Come on! Stop telling us fairy-tales.
"NOT neutral" you say? Then on whose side did your country's armed forces fight during WW2 Sertorio?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal_ ... orld_War_I
Which stopped being of any use to us around 1815...SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:00 amPortugal and the UK also have one of the most longstanding alliances in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance
?? 1815 or 1915?Sertorio wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:11 amWhich stopped being of any use to us around 1815...SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:00 amPortugal and the UK also have one of the most longstanding alliances in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance
1815, after the Napoleonic wars...Wellington was instrumental in getting Portugal rid of the French armies...Doc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:57 pm?? 1815 or 1915?Sertorio wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:11 amWhich stopped being of any use to us around 1815...SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:00 amPortugal and the UK also have one of the most longstanding alliances in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance
That's so, Sertorio. As the king of Portugal, family and court fled to the safety of Brazil the British placed some of their own army units there apparently to honour their old alliance with Portugal. I can se no other reason for it for for it. 1. Britain's armed strwength lie with its navy; not its army and 2. waging war on the Iberian penimsula contributed nothing obvious to final victory over Napoleon. But it would have loaned credability to the reputation of Britain as a country that honoured its alliances (i.e. it had some propaganda value).Sertorio wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:29 am1815, after the Napoleonic wars...Wellington was instrumental in getting Portugal rid of the French armies...Doc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 6:57 pm?? 1815 or 1915?Sertorio wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:11 amWhich stopped being of any use to us around 1815...SteveFoerster wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 9:00 amPortugal and the UK also have one of the most longstanding alliances in the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Portuguese_Alliance