That same year he was promoted to Major in Froberg's Levy, a rank he maintained when he transferred to Roll's Regiment in 1807.
[note 2] When the latter fled Braga and was brought back to the camp by the Ordenanza militia, Eben had him thrown into gaol.
[1] As second-in-command to Freire, Eben then took command of the Portuguese forces that would be heavily defeated by Soult's troops at the battle a few days later.
At the end of that month, with the remnants of his battalion, Eben again fought as part of the Portuguese forces at First Battle of Porto (March 1809).
[3] At the end of October 1810, he commanded some 2,000 troops of the 7th brigade, incorporated in Campbell's 6th Division that made up Wellington's army within the Lines of Torres Vedras.