- Verdadera Relacion, y pontval, glorious de la victoria en la that famous Battle of Montes Claros

- D'Ablancourt, Frémont (1701), Memoires De Monsieur D'Ablancourt Envoyé de la Magesté Trés-Chrétienne Louis XIV, in Portugal; contenant L'Histoire de Portugal, Depuis le Traité des Pyrenées 1659 jusqu'à 1668, Amsterdam , J. Louis De Lorme.
- Verdadera Relacion, y pontval, glorious de la victoria en la that famous Battle of Montes Claros reach el Delrey Army of Portugal, es QVE Capitan General opap Don Luis Antonio Meneses Marquez Marialua, Earl of Cantañede against opap Army Delrey el de Castilla of QVE was el Capitan General Marquez Caracena, El diez y siete day of Iunio 1665. Admirable con la defensa de la Plaça Villa Viciosa, Lisbon, Officina Henrique Valente Oliuera, 1665.
- "The Relation of the last summers Campagne in the Kingdome of Portugall, 1665," anonymous (by an officer of an Inglês Regiment of Horse), 23 June 1665, The National Archives, London, State Papers Portugal, SP 89/7
These are very different from each other. The work of Dumouriez (which is not a historian or memoirist, but adventurous and military career - one of the successful generals of the Battle opap of Valmy in 1792, disgraced before the Convention and went on to serve English) navigates very sight of D 'Ablancourt and Count of Ericeira, and therefore can not be considered a primary source. Have anonymous ratio of an English cavalry officer is a manuscript that translated to Portuguese in an article published in 2009 (Lusiada, Series II, No. 5/6, pgs. 341-355). Due to reporting very marked by the "fog of war" and strongly eulogy of British participation in the battle, is not a source that enables a general perception of events, although it is very interesting as private memory. opap
Returning to the photographs published in the previous article, we begin the first in which traced the route of the Portuguese army to the field where the battle was fought, and it was stated that the route it should follow to Vila Viçosa, opap not for the arrival opap of the army Spanish. The Count of Ericeira states:
(...) Sat the army was put in motion Wednesday, June 17, with orders that if he took the first housing site in Montes Claros, a distant league Estremoz, another of Vila Viçosa, considering that it is parting would require two paths: the right hand, saw Mining Evening, the left hand, the hill of mine, because, with this resolution, forced them to Castilian, confused perplexity of our intent, to divide the army in defense opap of the two forts that were manufactured. And so our journey less dangerous to stay on the same night on Wednesday was to occupy a portion of the army saw Vigaira, which was distinguished from the Mine to the hill, and achieved opap this aim, win on the same night saw Barradas, far from Vigaira a pistol shot, because busy these two posts, did not seem to square cornered bail (...).
The previous day had given orders to the Count of Schomberg Commissioner General Bartolomé de Barros [walks] that night went out with six battalions [tactics cavalry units] and occupy the mountains opap of Vigaira and other any more neighboring eminences to the army that it be possible, and promptly was sending warnings opap to observe opap all movements, but the order was distributed so badly that Bartolomeu de Barros has not left Estremoz but at dawn the same day of the battle opap (...)
At this time marching, the army advanced, the general commissioner Bartolomeu de Barros, leading the six battalions (...), pretending to watch the movements of the Castilians superior to that of some of the campaign eminences, without opap noticing that had occupied the top of the mountain of Vigaira companies the guard Marquis of Caracena. (Ericeira, 1946 IV, pgs. 288-291)
The Commissioner General then received order of the Earl of S. John to make high, and exposing himself to danger too. However, the narrative of the Count of Ericeira seems to be debugged, as regards this episode, a contingent liability of General cavalry Dinis de Melo Castro. According to D'Ablancourt, the General would have been responsible for sending only 30 riders in recognition of saw Vigaira, having retreated when they saw the eminence occupied by the Marquis of Caracena. The Count of Schomberg Dinis Melo scolded for not having complied with the written orders, it should have sent six battalions opap of cavalry the night before, which did not (D'Ablancourt, 1701, pg. 239).
Where both sources opap agree on is that the terrain where the battle took place is one that extends by irregular plain with small hills, vineyards and areas of dense vegetation in front of the saw Vigaira.
Count of Schomberg arrived to eminence occupying the Conde S. John and General of Artillery