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Peace of Badajoz

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In Portugal: The French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars
By the Peace of Badajoz (June 1801), Portugal lost the town of Olivenza and paid an indemnity.
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War of the Oranges

In War of the Oranges
…treaty with France and Spain—the Peace of Badajoz (June 1801)—ending the invasion. Portugal agreed to close its ports to English ships, to give commercial concessions to France, to cede Olivenza to Spain and part of Brazil to France, and to pay an indemnity.
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