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Brazilian journal A Época highlighting the end of the war with the signing of the Armistice of Compiègne on 12 November 1918. After the war's end, Brazil participated in the Versailles Peace Conference, with a delegation led by future president Epitácio Pessoa. Brazil was also a founder of the League of Nations after the end of the war. Upon ...
This list of military engagements of World War I covers terrestrial, maritime, and aerial conflicts, including campaigns, operations, defensive positions, and sieges. . Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period o
Emergence of Brazil as the hegemonic power in the Platine region. Uruguayan War (1864–1865) Brazil Colorados Unitarians Argentina Uruguay Blancos Federalists Paraguay (support) Victory. Takeover of the Uruguayan government by the Colorado Party; Invasion of Brazilian and Argentine provinces by Paraguay, prompting the start of the Paraguayan War.
Slave rebellions were frequent until the practice of slavery was abolished in 1888. The most famous of the revolts was led by Zumbi dos Palmares.The state he established, named the Quilombo dos Palmares, was a self-sustaining republic of Maroons escaped from the Portuguese settlements in Brazil, and was "a region perhaps the size of Portugal in the hinterland of Pernambuco". [1]
The Battle of the Porpoises (Portuguese: Batalha das Toninhas) is the name given to a military blunder involving the Brazilian Navy in the Gibraltar Strait, near the end of the First World War. [ 1 ] While on patrol for potential German submarines, the crew of the Bahia slaughtered a passing shoal of porpoises , mistaking them for the periscope ...
Brazilian soldiers in World War I. Brazil entered the war in 1917 after the United States intervened on the basis of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare sinking its merchant ships, which Brazil also cited as a reason to enter the war fighting against Germany and the Central Powers.
Brazil at War is a 1943 propaganda short documentary film produced by the Office of War Information and the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.. The 9-minute-long film starts by showing Brazil's comparisons with the United States, such as its geographic size, population, and military history during World War I.
Brazil fought wars in the La Plata river region: the Cisplatine War against Argentina (in 1825); the Platine War with Argentina (in the 1850s); the Uruguayan War and the Paraguayan War (in the 1860s). This last war saw Argentina and Brazil as allies against Paraguay; in what was the bloodiest war in South American history.