"...It is, however, the first time in history, for example, that the Prince Regent of a kingdom moves the capital of his country to another continent in order to preserve its independence, a strategic decision so misunderstood then, but now universally considered as masterly; he did with such a planning and perfect execution never seen before, embarking the Court and the Government, about 15,000 people, documents, libraries, resources and other assets in time to leave Junot, as he was entering Lisbon, seeing the ships flee... "
"... It is also the first time that a prince of Continental Europe resists victorious to Napoleonic impositions, defeating him in his hegemonic intentions and preventing him from reaching the military and political objectives that he was aiming at, deserving from Napoleon himself, in memoirs written in exile, the honour to be considered as "the only one who deceived Napoleon"..."
by Vasco d'Orey Bobone