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List Of Generals Of The Empire Of Brazil
This is a list of all officers who achieved the rank of general-officer in the Empire of Brazil. Generals Brigadier *Francisco José Damasceno Rosado *Francisco Xavier da Cunha *Jerônimo Francisco Coelho *João de Castro Canto e Melo, 2nd Viscount of Castro *José Manuel Carlos de Gusmão *José Mariano de Matos *José de Sá Bitencourt Câmara *Miguel de Frias e Vasconcelos Field marshal *Francisco Félix da Fonseca Pereira Pinto *Francisco Sérgio de Oliveira *Jacinto Pinto de Araújo Corrêa *João Eduardo Pereira Colaço Amado *João José da Costa Pimentel *João Propício Mena Barreto, 2nd Baron of São Gabriel *José Leite Pacheco *José Luís Mena Barreto (1817–79), José Luís Mena Barreto *Lopo de Almeida Henriques Botelho e Melo *Luís Manuel de Lima e Silva *Manuel Felizardo de Sousa e Melo *Manuel Muniz Tavares *Pedro de Alcântara Bellegarde *Solidônio José Antônio Pereira do Lago *Venceslau de Oliveira Belo Lieutenant general *Henrique Marques de Oliveira Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of Brazil
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and (until 1828) Uruguay. Its government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Dom Pedro I and his son Dom Pedro II. A colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese colonial Empire in 1808, when the Portuguese Prince regent, later King Dom John VI, fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and established himself and his government in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. John VI later returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir-apparent, Pedro, to rule the Kingdom of Brazil as regent. On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and, after waging a successful war against his father's kingdom, was acclaimed on 12 October as Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil. The new country was huge, sparsely populated and ethnically diverse. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel De Frias E Vasconcelos
Miguel de Frias e Vasconcelos (15 October 1805 - 25 May 1859) was a Brazilian military officer, engineer and politician, best known for having received the abdication letter from emperor Pedro I on 7 April 1831. Biography Vasconcelos was born on 15 October 1805. His father was lieutenant colonel Joaquim de Frias Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos followed his father's career as a soldier in the 1st Cavalry Regiment at the age of 15. An artillery officer three years later, he joined the Military School. He subsequently advanced in the ranks to the rank of major. In his military career Vasconcelos took part in the represseion against the Mercenaries Revolt, in 1828; in the Ragamuffin War in Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ... from 1842 to 1844, and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luís Mena Barreto (1817–79)
José Luís Mena Barreto (24 October 1817 – 10 October 1879) was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. He came from a wealthy family with a tradition of military service. José Luís entered the army in 1836, during the Ragamuffin War, a secessionist rebellion. The conflict lasted for almost ten years, and he fought in several military engagements at that time. José Luís held several positions during the years following the end of the Ragamuffin threat in 1845. His most important posting was command over the cavalry unit that served as Emperor Dom Pedro II's personal guard in the national capital, Rio de Janeiro. He also fought against the Argentine Confederation in the brief Platine War, which lasted from 1851 until 1852. In 1864, he led one of the two divisions which comprised the Brazilian army in the Uruguayan War. During that conflict, he led the initial invasion of Uruguay and fought in two crucial engagements that resulted in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquim Xavier Curado, Count Of São João Das Duas Barras
Joaquim Xavier Curado, the first and only baron with greatness and count of São João das Duas Barras (Pirenópolis, 2 December 1746 - Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of the same name, Brazil's List of Brazilian states by population, third-most populous state, and the List of largest citi ..., 15 September 1830), was a Brazilian military officer and politician. References 1746 births 1830 deaths Brazilian monarchists Brazilian nobility {{brazil-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Marques De Sousa (1743–1822)
Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre (13 June 1804 – 18 July 1875), nicknamed "the Gloved Centaur", was an army officer, politician and abolitionist of the Empire of Brazil. Born into a wealthy family of military background, Manuel Marques de Sousa joined the Portuguese Army#South American campaigns, Portuguese Army in Brazil in 1817 when he was little more than a child. His military initiation occurred in the Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental, conquest of the Banda Oriental (Eastern Bank), which was annexed and became the southernmost Brazilian province of Cisplatina in 1821. For most of the 1820s, he was embroiled in the Brazilian effort to keep Cisplatina as part of its territory: first during the Independence of Brazil, struggle for Brazilian independence and then in the Cisplatine War. It would ultimately prove a futile attempt, as Cisplatina successfully separated from Brazil to become the independent nation of Uruguay in 1828. A few years later, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polidoro Jordão, Viscount Of Santa Teresa
Polidoro da Fonseca Quintanilha Jordão, the Viscount of Santa Teresa, (2 November 1802 - 13 January 1879) was a Brazilian general and politician who served as Minister of War of the Empire of Brazil and fought in the Paraguayan War. Biography Early life The son of colonel João Florêncio Jordão, Polidoro was born in Rio de Janeiro on 2 November 1802. After finishing the humanities course, he was accepted into the Military Academy of Rio de Janeiro on 20 January 1823, becoming a cadet on 7 February 1824. Polidoro rose through the military ranks, successively being promoted to second lieutenant via decree on 12 October 1824; first lieutenant on 17 February 1825; and captain on 10 March 1827. He graduated the engineering course at the Academy on 22 December 1831. Polidoro was later promoted to major on 12 July 1837; lieutenant colonel on 3 August 1841 and colonel on 26 July 1851. On 15 November 1853 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Superior Command of the National Guard o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount Of Laguna
Carlos Frederico Lecor (October 6, 1764 – August 2, 1836) was a Portuguese-born Brazilian general and politician. He was the first Baron of Laguna, in Portugal, and later ascended to Viscount of Laguna, in Brazil. He was most notably the only non-British General to have commanded one of the Anglo-Portuguese divisions of Wellington's Peninsular Army (the seventh, in late 1813), as well as having commanded the Portuguese forces who invaded the Banda Oriental del Uruguay (Eastern Bank of Uruguay) in 1816. His last name is sometimes written as Lecór or Le Cor. The latter is very common in English sources of the 19th century. Most Spanish sources give him as Carlos Federico Lecor. Early life and military career (1764–1807) Son of Louis Pierre Lecor, a French émigré, and Quitéria Maria Krusse, Carlos Frederico Lecor was born in the Parish of Santos-o-Velho, in Lisbon. He had French ancestry by his father, and German, Dutch and Spanish ancestry by his mother. He was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrique Pedro Carlos De Beaurepaire-Rohan
Henrique de Beaurepaire-Rohan (12 May 1812 - 19 July 1894) was a Brazilian explorer, geographer, soldier and politician. Biography He was of French extraction. In 1845 he began the exploration of territory south of Rio de Janeiro. He penetrated into Paraguay. He visited Bonpland at Borja. He subsequently published the results of his exploration as ''Descripção de uma viagem de Cuyabá ao Rio de Janeiro'' (Rio de Janeiro, 1846). He was promoted in 1850 to the rank of major of engineers, and appointed by the Brazilian government to collect statistical information on the interior provinces of the country. He eventually became lieutenant-general in the Brazilian Army. In 1877 he published the important geographical work entitled ''Etudios acerca da organização da carta geographica e da historia physica e politica do Brazil'' (1877). References External links * 1812 births 1894 deaths Brazilian generals Brazilian geographers Brazilian explorers Brazilian nobility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luís Alves De Lima E Silva, Duke Of Caxias
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (25 August 1803 – 7 May 1880), nicknamed "the Peacemaker" and "Iron Duke", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles, Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War for Independence against Portugal, then spent three years in Brazil's southernmost province, Cisplatina, as the government unsuccessfully resisted that province's secession in the Cisplatine War. Though his own father and uncles renounced Emperor Dom Pedro I during the protests of 1831, Caxias remained loyal. Pedro I abdicated in favor of his young son Dom Pedro II, whom Caxias instructed in swordsmanship and horsemanship and eventually befriended. During Pedro II's minority the governing regency faced countless rebellions throughout the country. Again breaking with his father and other relatives sympathetic to the rebels, from 1839 to 184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Gaston, Count Of Eu
Prince Gaston of Orleans, Count of Eu (french: link=no, Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston; 28 April 1842 – 28 August 1922) was a French prince and military commander who fought in the Spanish-Moroccan War and the Paraguayan War. He was the first son of Louis, Duke of Nemours and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and was married to Princess Isabel, daughter of Pedro II of Brazil and heiress to the Brazilian throne. Early years Gaston was born Louis Philippe Marie Ferdinand Gaston of Orléans (Portuguese: Luís Filipe Maria Fernando Gastão de Orleães) on 28 April 1842 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, at the Château de Neuilly. He was the eldest son of Louis, the Duke of Nemours and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His paternal grandparents were King Louis Philippe I, King of the French, and Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, and his maternal grandparents were Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Princess Maria Antonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis Of Erval
Manuel Luís Osório, Marquis of Erval (May 10, 1808 – October 4, 1879) was a Brazilian military officer, monarchist and politician. A member of the Imperial Army at the age of fifteen, he climbed all the posts of the military hierarchy of his time thanks to the soldier attributes that consecrated him as "The Legendary". He participated in the main military events of the late nineteenth century in the Río de la Plata region and is considered a hero of the Paraguayan War. He was declared patron of the Cavalry Branch of the Brazilian Army in 1962. Biography Early life Manuel Luís Osório was born on 10 May 1808, in lands that belonged to the village of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Arroio ( Rio Grande do Sul). Osório was raised on his maternal grandfather's farm. His father, Manuel Luís da Silva Borges, son of the Azorean descendant couple Pedro Luís and Maria Rosa da Silveira, both native of the parish of Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Lagoa, on the island of Sant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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