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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 of ...
Brazil officially declared neutrality on August 4, 1914. At the beginning of the war, although neutral, it faced a complicated social and economic situation. The Brazilian economy was largely based on exports of agricultural products such as coffee, latex, and very limited industrial manufacturing.
This is a list of wars involving the Federative Republic of Brazil and its predecessor states, from 1815 to the present day. United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) [ edit ]
During Brazil's First Republic (1889–1930), the Brazilian Army was one of several land-based military forces present in the country. The army was equipped and funded by the federal government , while state and local chiefs had the Public Forces ("small state armies") and irregular forces such as patriotic battalions .
Action of 8 June 1915; First victory using a synchronized gun (1915) 1916 in aviation. Airstrike on Zonguldak (1916) 1917 in aviation. Action of 4 May 1917; Folkestone raid (1917) Battle of Arras (1917) Bloody April (1917) Air Battle on Istrana (1917) 1918 in aviation. Tondern raid (1918) Flight over Vienna (1918) See also the following articles:
By that time Brazil had also sent a Naval fleet, the Naval Division in War Operations or DNOG, [8] [14] to join the Allies' Naval Forces in the Mediterranean. During 1918, protests broke out against the military recruitment; this, in conjunction with the news of the ongoing revolution in Russia , only strengthened the isolationist sentiment ...
Brazil's federal police on Friday arrested seven senior military police officers accused of assisting right-wing rioters during the Jan. 8 attacks on government buildings in the capital, Brasilia.
The Brazilian Army (Portuguese: Exército Brasileiro; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordinating itself, in the Federal Government's structure, to the Ministry of Defense, alongside the Brazilian Navy and Air Force.