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New Coimbra Fort
The New Coimbra Fort, also known as Fort Portocarrero or simply Fort Coimbra, is a Brazilian military fortification on the Paraguay River, strategically located near the border with Bolivia and Paraguay in Corumbá, in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, in Brazil. The fort was founded in September 13 1775, something that had been planned by the Portuguese colonial authorities ever since the new borders with Spain had been fixed in the Treaty of Madrid (13 January 1750), Treaty of Madrid in 1750. The fort is famed for being besieged in the opening stages of the Paraguayan War by superior Paraguayan forces; the swift evacuation of its defenders under the cover of the night after but a few days of siege was a subject of controversy in Brazil. Today, it still stands and is occupied by the Brazilian Army, as its position is still strategically relevant for control over a wide border area. It hosts a display of historical artillery pieces and a chapel, and is listed as a heritage site. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bastion Fort
A bastion fort or ''trace italienne'' (a phrase derived from non-standard French, meaning 'Italian outline') is a fortification in a style developed during the early modern period in response to the ascendancy of gunpowder weapons such as cannon, which rendered earlier medieval approaches to fortification obsolete. It appeared in the mid-fifteenth century in Italy. Some types, especially when combined with ravelins and other outworks, resembled the related star fort of the same era. The design of the fort is normally a polygon with bastions at the corners of the walls. These outcroppings eliminated protected blind spots, called "dead zones", and allowed fire along the curtain wall from positions protected from direct fire. Many bastion forts also feature cavaliers, which are raised secondary structures based entirely inside the primary structure. Origins Their predecessors, medieval fortresses, were usually placed on high hills. From there, arrows were shot at the ene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Borbon
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Mato Grosso Campaign
The Mato Grosso campaign was an early Paraguayan offensive in the Paraguayan War. Paraguay invaded the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso (now Mato Grosso do Sul). Paraguayan offensive Paraguay took the initiative during the first phase of the war: invading Mato Grosso in the north on 14 December 1864,Hooker, T.D., 2008, The Paraguayan War, Nottingham: Foundry Books, Rio Grande do Sul in the south in early 1865, and the Argentine province of Corrientes. Two separate Paraguayan columns invaded Mato Grosso simultaneously. An expedition of 3,248 troops, commanded by Colonel Vicente Barrios, was transported by a naval squadron under the command of Frigate Captain Pedro Ignacio Meza, up the Paraguay River to the town of Concepción. They attacked the New Coimbra Fort on 27 December. The Brazilian garrison of 154 men resisted for three days, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Hermenegildo Portocarrero (later Baron of Forte Coimbra). When their munitions were exhausted, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhambaí
''Anhambaí'' is a museum ship and former gunboat operated by the Imperial Brazilian Navy, navies of the Empire of Brazil and Paraguayan Navy, Paraguay. It is on display in the , located in the municipality of Caraguatay, Paraguay, Caraguatay, Cordillera, Paraguay, Cordillera Department, Paraguay. The boat was built in England and incorporated into the Brazilian Imperial Navy on June 25, 1858. In the Paraguayan War, during the initial offensive of the Paraguayans on Brazil in December 1865, it acted in the defense of the New Coimbra Fort, offering artillery fire and support during the withdrawal of Brazilian forces. The following month, while its crew were trying to flee to Cuiabá, it was captured by the Paraguayans, resulting in the death of a major part of the crew. In 1867, under Paraguayan control, it supported the Paraguayan forces in Corumbá against Recapture of Corumbá, Brazilian attempts to retake the city. About two years later, after the imperial troops advanced on Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Barrios
Vicente Barrios Bedoya ( – December 21, 1868) was a Paraguayan general and politician who was the son-in-law of President Carlos Antonio López. Under López and his successor, Marshal and President Francisco Solano López, Barrios held many positions throughout the earlier years of the Paraguayan War and participated in the earlier battles and campaigns of the war. Biography Barrios joined the Paraguayan Army in 1843 and quickly made a career. In 1847 he was promoted to captain and in 1853, to lieutenant colonel. As such, he was one of the entourages of Francisco Solano López during his 1853-1854 tour of Europe. This journey, on which his father had sent him, primarily had the purpose of acquiring modern ships and armaments, but also of recruiting scientists, technicians and settlers for Paraguay. After returning to Paraguay, López was appointed vice president by his father, and Barrios was promoted to colonel. Due to his rank, he also took over the management of a colonizati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermenegildo Portocarrero, Baron Of Forte De Coimbra
Saint Hermenegild or Ermengild (died 13 April 585; ; , from Gothic ''𐌹𐍂𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌳𐍃 *Airmana-gild'', "immense tribute"), was the son of King Liuvigild of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula and southern France. He fell out with his father in 579, then revolted the following year. During his rebellion, he converted from Arianism to Chalcedonian Christianity. Hermenegild was defeated in 584 and exiled. His death was later celebrated as a martyrdom due to the influence of Pope Gregory I's ''Dialogues'', in which he portrayed Hermenegild as a "Catholic martyr rebelling against the tyranny of an Arian father." Marriage to Ingund Hermenegild was the eldest son of Liuvigild and his first wife. He was a brother of Reccared I and brought up an Arian. Liuvigild made his sons co-regents. In 579, he married Ingund, the daughter of the Frankish King Sigebert I of Austrasia who was a Chalcedonian. Her mother was the Visigoth princess Brunhilda of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Cabichuí
''El Cabichuí'' was an early biweekly Paraguayan governmental trench newspaper, written and printed near the front during the Siege of Humaitá in the Paraguayan War, aimed at being read by the Paraguayan Army soldiery. Directed by Juan Crisóstomo Centurión and Natalicio Talavera, it had text both in Guarani and Spanish. A bare month after Humaitá fell, it stopped being printed, as the war once again became mobile; by that point, it had run for 95 issues. History ''El Cabichuí'' was a very early example of a trench newspaper, born in a context where battle lines had been stagnant for more than a year during the Siege of Humaitá in the Paraguayan War. It was idealized by the Paraguayan president, Francisco Solano López, as a tool for improving morale. It was made via woodcut with a rustic press in López's headquarters (initially at Paso Pucú, and later at San Fernando, in today's Central Department). The name Cabichuí refers to a species of black wasp common in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Leverger, Baron Of Melgaço
Augusto João Manuel Leverger, Baron of Melgaço (30 January 1802 – 14 January 1880), nicknamed "Cuiabá's Breton", was a French-born Brazilian admiral, writer, historian, geographer and several times president of the province of Mato Grosso in the Empire of Brazil. He was a key figure of Mato Grosso's literary production during his time. Biography Leverger was born to Mathurin Michel Leverger and Regina Corbes in Saint-Malo in Brittany on 30 January 1802. According to his biography, written by Virgílio Correia Filho, he was a seaman since he was very young, having arrived in Brazil in 1824 because of that profession. In 1825 he joined the Imperial Brazilian Navy as a second-lieutenant, fighting in the Cisplatine War and commanding the corvette ''General Dorrego'' (renamed ''General do Rêgo''), which was captured from the Argentine Navy in 1828. He arrived in Cuiabá, in southwestern Brazil, in 1830. He had been named to staff the navy arsenal being built there. In 1843, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forte Príncipe Da Beira
Forte Principe da Beira ( Portuguese for "Prince of Beira Fortress") is a fortification on the lower part of the Guaporé River close to its confluence with the Mamoré River in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. The fort was built from 1776 to 1783 and is one of only two forts that the Portuguese Empire built in the inner regions of Brazil. It was named after the heir of Portugal, styled as the Prince of Beira. The Portuguese built it to secure their border against the expanding Spanish Empire, which controlled the areas to the southwest of Rondônia. The military use of the fort was abandoned in 1889. The fort has an outer wall with a height of 10 m and a length of 1 km. It has four bastions, which originally carried 14 cannons each. Only one of those cannons still remains today. Inside the wall there are ruins of a chapel, soldier quarters, a prison and various utility buildings. References Sources * Regis St. Louis, Andrew Draffen: ''Brazil''. Lonely Planet Lonel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaporé River
Guaporé River (, ) is a river in western Brazil and northeastern Bolivia. It is long; of the river forms the border between Brazil and Bolivia. The Guaporé is part of the Madeira River basin, which eventually empties into the Amazon River. The Guaporé crosses the eastern part of the Beni savanna region. It forms the border of the Guaporé Biological Reserve, and is fed by rivers originating in the reserve, the São Miguel, Branco, São Simão, Massaco and Colorado. About 260 fish species are known from the Guaporé River basin, and about 25 of these are endemic.Hales, J., and P. Petry (2013). Guapore - Itenez'. Freshwater Ecoregions of the World. Retrieved 28 February 2013 While many fish species in the river essentially are Amazonian, the fauna in the Guaporé also has a connection with the Paraguay River (part of the Río de la Plata Basin The Río de la Plata basin (, ), more often called the River Plate basin in scholarly writings, sometimes called the Platine basi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Of The Oranges
The War of the Oranges (; ; ) was a brief conflict in 1801 in which Spanish forces, instigated by the government of France, and ultimately supported by the French military, invaded Portugal. The war resulted in the Treaty of Badajoz, the loss of Portuguese territory, in particular losing Olivenza to Spain. Six years later, Napoleon would invade both Portugal and Spain in the Peninsular War. Background In 1800, First Consul Bonaparte and his ally, the Spanish prime-minister and Generalissimo Manuel de Godoy, sent an ultimatum to Portugal, the last British ally on the continent, demanding that she break her alliance with Britain. Portugal refused to cede, and, in April 1801, French troops arrived in the country. They were bolstered by Spanish troops under the command of Manuel de Godoy. Godoy had, under his command, the Spanish Army of Extremadura, with five divisions. War The Spanish attack on Portugal started on the early morning of 20 May, and focused on the Portugues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intendancy Of Paraguay
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