History of Lisbon francophile compatriots for the brutality and depredations of the French. Meanwhile, to control access to the capital, Wellington's chief engineer, Richard Fletcher, built the defensive lines known as the Lines of Torres Vedras across the peninsula on which Lisbon sits, using Portuguese workmen. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Tagus on the other, the city was reachable only by a narrow stretch of land blocked by a range of hills stretching from Sintra to Torre Vedras, which since Roman times had marked the bounds of Lisbon's territory. Conceived by Fletcher and a Portuguese major, Neves Costa,
Course of the Willamette River Park is on the left. As the river reaches Albany, the Calapooia River enters from the right from the Willamette's mouth. Bryant Park is on the right, and a USGS stream gauge is just beyond the confluence, where the combined rivers flow under the Ellsworth Street Bridge and then the Lyon Street Bridge, which carry U.S. Route 20 eastbound and westbound, respectively. The gradient is slightly steeper in these upper reaches than in the reaches between Albany and Oregon City. In Albany, the river flows east under a Union Pacific railroad bridge and through the city, then curves north by