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 Ears and Conflicts of Brazil
On February 20, 1827, an Argentine-Uruguayan army defeated the Brazilians on the pampas of Cisplatina at the Battie of Ituzaingo.
Brazilian naval forces won a major battie on the Paraná River south of Comentes in mid-1865, forcing the Paraguayans to retreat and afterward fight a defensive war from their own soil.
The war caused financial havoc in Brazil, and mercenary troops mutinied in Rio (1828).
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 List of wars - Simple English Wikipedia
1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod.
1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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 Brazilian War of Independence
Brazilian War of Independence in 1821-1825 was fought between colonial Brazil and Portugal.
The Portuguese "lead feet," as the Brazilians called the troops, rioted before concentrating their forces on Cerro Castello, which was soon surrounded by thousands of armed Brazilians.
This former royal official and professor of science at Coimbra was crucial to the subsequent direction of events and is regarded as one of the formative figures of Brazilian nationalism, indeed, as the patriarch of independence.
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 Brazil - BRAZZIL - Up and Down at Brazilian War Factories - Brazilian Military - February 1998
One consequence is that the domestic economic relations that grew up around the defense sector have themselves been conditioned by the structure of Brazilian domestic politics, as seen in the historical strength and intrusiveness of the state, the weak and state-dependent character of Brazil's industrial bourgeoisie, and the traditional insularity and autonomy of the military.
The emergence of a sugar-based economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries stimulated shipbuilding in the northeastern territory of Bahia, as Portuguese shipbuilders adapted to the use of tropical woods.
The policy of the Army is war preparation, and this preparation interests and involves all the manifestations and activities of national life, in the material realm.
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Ideologically, the Wars of Independence were born in the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment, also sometimes labeled the Age of Reason.
For fifteen years the Wars of Independence raged across Latin America from the northern deserts of Mexico to the cold, snowy passes of the Andes Mountains that divide Chile from Argentina in South America.
Though independence came easily, Central America was in no way spared from the instability and conflict of the 1820s and 1830s which afflicted most of her Latin American neighbors.
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 Brazil Tourism Office   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The irritating opposition of Lisbon's politicians to this state of affairs and the cajoling from close Brazilian advisers attracted the young prince to the cause of independence.
The mastermind behind Brazilian independence was José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva, a distinguished Brazilian geologist and writer who had become the most important and trusted of the Prince's advisers.
After a relatively short war of independence (1822-1824) Brazil became an Empire under Dom Pedro I, who, nevertheless, continued to be the heir to the Portuguese throne.
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 Chieftains of Mexican Independence
Although Guerrero served in the revolutionary armies during the entire period of the struggle for independence, 1810-1821, none of his campaigns were in or near the province of Texas.
But the most important reason why the people of Texas objected to Guerrero's possession of war powers was that one of his decrees in exercise of this facility threatened them for a time with economic ruin by depriving the planters of their slave labor.
From the confirmation of Austin's grant by the poder ejecutivo on April 14, 1823 to the overthrow of Guerrero, the government was controlled by veterans of the first period of the struggle for independence.
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 A Southern View of History:  The War for Southern Independence -Part 14
Since the war was over, the government shifted their confiscation plans from the army to "agents", who received a 25% commission on all cotton “recovered” for the government.
Cruising in remote seas, her commander was not informed of the fall of the Confederacy and close of the war until long afterward.
Breckinridge, the Secretary of War, was sent to confer with Johnston, but found him only in time to assist in drawing up the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman.
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 A Comparative Study of the Haitian and Brazilian Independence Movements.
A Comparative Study of the Haitian and Brazilian Independence Movements.
Below is a short sample of the essay "A Comparative Study of the Haitian and Brazilian Independence Movements.".
The French army was weakened by yellow fever and the slaves guerrilla war tactics were very effective, so in the end Leclerc resorted to deception.
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 Brazilian Navy
In 1860 the fleet consisted on 7 screw sloops and 8 paddle steamers and a sailing fleet of 6 frigates and corvettes and 14 smaller vessels.
During the war against Paraguay between 1865 and 1870 a number of ironclads (were purchased from Britain and France (Brasil, Tamandare Lima Barros, Bahia, Silvado, Mariz E Barros, Herval, Cabral, Colombo,).
Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes, launched in September 1908 and sold in 1953.
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 The UK Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
That war is no solution, but instead creates more problems than it addresses.
If you truly believe that wars such as this are wrong, then speak out lest your silence be taken as aquiescence.
Can't imagine Judi Dench having such a total failure in taste that she ends up married to Prince Charles (or King William V as the fantasists at the Telegraph would have it).
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 List of wars - free-definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is a list of wars, historical and ongoing.
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 UEHS Global Studies 10- Latin American Independence Project
The Movement for Independence - O Movimento pela Independência - Library of Congress
Brazilian War of Independence 1821-1825 - Armed Conflict Events Data - OnWar.com
Last updated 21 October 2004 by Cheryl Naslund.
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 Xtratime Community - The 1848 - Hungarian war of independence game
It's about the Hungarian war of independence in 1848-49, its like as the Total War.
We can be with the Hungarian or the Austrian side.
In Medieval: Total War I conquered Europe, there were no french, german people, russians only a few.
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