The Obelisk

Built in Torres Vedras in 1954, this obelisk is an memorial to the Peninsular War (or Napoleonic Invasion), and each side of the obelisk as an date of the most important battles in Portugal.

A small historic context:
At the XIX century, Europe was in war, Napoleon Bonaparte wants to block every major sea ports to the entry of the British, but the Portuguese King refuses to comply that order. In retaliation Napoleon send the Army marches to conquer the Lisbon. Knowing of that, the Portuguese King ask for help to an old ally, the British. The command of the army was delivered to the Duke of Wellington, that analyse the geology of Portugal and orders that every single windmill since Tagus River to the Atlantic Sea was converted to an military stronghold to block the invasion, and with that task completed emerges the Lines of Torres Vedras, the biggest defensive system in Europe.
Hunger, tired and facing this major obstacle, the invadors withdrawn, and marks the first defeat for the French, and the very beginning of the end for the Napoleon era.
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