Excerpt from Eight Centuries of Portuguese Monarchy a Political Study The anglo-portuguese alliance, which dates back to the time of the Crusades, was an alliance so precious in obligations that it was maintained by Portugal throughout the whole of her national career, obligations which were renewed in the compact of modern Europe - the convention of Vienna - and the subsequent treaties, the last of which dates from 1909 when King Manuel visited this country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.