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Trant's Raid | |||||||
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Part of the Peninsular War | |||||||
![]() Coimbra | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
4,000 Portuguese militia | Unknown | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
3 killed 26 wounded |
8 killed 4,000 captured |
Trant's Raid was the Portuguese recapture of the city of Coimbra from the French on 6 October 1810 during the Peninsular War. The assault was undertaken by a Portuguese militia led by Colonel Nicholas Trant, an Irish officer in the British Army.[2]