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Over the past decade the Portuguese Army Archives has placed tens of thousands documents online and are accessible to the public. Many more documents were digitized but the Archives ran out of funds to index them and place them online. Among those not accessible were files on British officers who served in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War and afterwards until the Portuguese Revolution of 1821.

There was a recent fund-raising event to place on line all documents on the British officers who served in the Portuguese Army during the Peninsular War. Donations were made by the Friends of the Lines of Torres Vedras, the Waterloo Association, the Friends of the British Cemetery at Elvis, and the British Historical Society.

Work began in March 2026 and ended in May 2026. The initial estimate that there were files for about 125 of the 375 British officers for a total of around 4,000 files. The estimate was not even close. Over 10,000 files were uploaded for about 320 British officers!

You can search for an individual by name or unit at:

https://ahm-exercito.defesa.gov.pt/search