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	Battle of Alfarrobeira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Alfarrobeira took place on May 20 1449.
		The place was Alverca, near Lisbon, at the margins of the creek of Alfarrobeira.
		The result was the definite defeat and death of the duke of Coimbra and the establishment of the Bragança as the most powerful house of Portugal.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/B/Battle-of-Alfarrobeira.htm (160 words)

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	Kids Be Safe : Article 'List of battles (alphabetical)' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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	Biography of Afonso V of Portugal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The situation becomes unstable and, in the following year, being led by what he afterwards discovered to be false representations, he declared Pedro a rebel and defeated his army in the battle of Alfarrobeira, in which his uncle and father in law was killed.
		After this battle and the loss of one of Portugal's most remarkable princes, the duke of Braganza became the de facto ruler of the country.
		Administratively, Afonso V was an absent king, since he did not pursue development of laws or commerce, preferring to remain with the legacy of his father and grandfather.
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	Dictionary battle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		, conflict, fight, engagement -- a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"
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	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Portugal - Intradynastic Struggle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When rumors of a plot against him surfaced, he decided to resist and marched on Lisbon, where he had the support of the populace.
		Pedro was met by the troops of the king and the duke of Bragança at the Battle of Alfarrobeira on May 24, 1449, where he was killed and his army defeated.
		This battle resulted in the enlargement of the property and wealth of the illegitimate line of the House of Avis, which allowed it to enjoy enormous influence over the pliable Afonso V until his death in 1481.
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		The invasion was repelled during the Summer after the battle of Atoleiros, but especially after the decisive battle of Aljubarrota (August 14, 1385), where the Castilian army was virtually annihilated.
		His only surviving daughter, Isabel, married the duke of Burgundy and entertained a extremely refined court in his lands.
		* Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (1392-1449, Battle of Alfarrobeira)
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	House_of_Braganza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This would provoke a short civil war against his brother Pedro, Duke of Coimbra that ended in his death in the Battle of Alfarrobeira in 1449.
		Jaime of Bragança ordered the construction of a monumental Palace at Vila Viçosa, which would become one of the royal palaces in the 17th century.
		King Sebastian I of Portugal disappeared from the face of the earth in Africa in 1578.
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	Business Software Review : Article 'Peloponnesian War' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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		His son, also named Asopius, also commanded naval expeditions during the war.
		This battle went on for two days with no result, until the Syracusans pretended to back away and attacked the Athenians while they were eating.
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Prince Henry the Navigator
		On the death of his brother, King Duarte, Henry acted as intermediary between his brother Pedro, who claimed the regency, and Queen Leonor, to whom it had been left by her husband, and he greatly promoted the success of Pedro's claim.
		But when, later on, Pedro's vaulting ambition led him into conflict with King Affonso V, Henry was unable to save him from defeat and death at the battle of Alfarrobeira.
		It is not, however, as a man of war or of politics that Henry has won fame, but as the initiator of continuous maritime exploration.
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	Duke of Braganza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When his six-year-old nephew became King Afonso V of Portugal, Afonso of Braganza was the king's most cherished councillor.
		This would provoke a short civil war against his brother Pedro, Duke of Coimbra that resulted in the latter's death in the Battle of Alfarrobeira in 1449.
		7th Teodósio II, Duke of Bragança (1568-1630), who fought a battle when only 10 years-old
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