a convent of Portugal, in the province of Beira, on the ridge called the Serra-de-Busaco, 20 miles N.N.E. of Coimbra. Here, on the 27th Sept. 1810, a French force of 65,000 men under Massena was repulsed with great loss in an attack on the position occupied by the English and Portuguese army, amounting to about 40,000, under the Duke of Wellington.