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In the latter year began the "sixty years' captivity," when Portugal became merely a Spanish province; yet there is no recollection of this except the ingrained hatred of Spaniards and of everything Spanish or of the shaking off the yoke in 1640, and of the battle of Amexial in 1663, where the English contingent bore the brunt of the battle, and the "Portugueses," as they are called by the author of An Account of the Court of Portugal, published in 1700, claimed the principal part of the honour.
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