Badajoz (Badajoz`) , capital of a Spanish province of the name, on the Guadiana, near the frontier of Portugal; a place of great strength; surrendered to Soult in 1811, and taken after a violent and bloody struggle by Wellington in 1812; the scene of fearful outrages after its capture.
Population (circa 1900) given as 28,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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