Assertion: fortress | /r/AtLocation | the hands of the portuguese
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text: Following Napoleon's brutal repression of the Spanish Dos de Mayo Uprising in Madrid, the Emperor triggered the Peninsular War by ordering a force of 4,000 troops with sixteen cannon across the border to occupy the fortress of Almeida, which despite early French invasion of the country, was still in the hands of the Portuguese.