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French invasions in Brazil date back to the earliest days of Portuguese colonization up until the end of the 19th century. [ 1 ] The attacks, initially as part of Francis I of France's challenge to the Treaty of Tordesillas , encouraged the practice of looting for the barter of brazilwood and supported the attempts to colonize the coast of Rio ...
Brazil: Bahia Republic Loyalist victory. Revolt suppressed. Platine War (1851–1852) Brazil Defense Government Entre Ríos Corrientes Santa Fe Argentina Cerrito Government Federalists: Victory. End of Juan Manuel de Rosas' government; Emergence of Brazil as the hegemonic power in the Platine region. Uruguayan War (1864–1865) Brazil Colorados ...
The following is a list of World War II documentary films. 1940s. Year Country Title Director 1940 ... War of the Century: Laurence Rees: 2000s. Year Country Title ...
Gatti, Maria G. "Good Neighbor, Bad Neighbor: Fact and Fiction in an FBI Investigation of Brazilian Literature during World War II." Hispanic American Historical Review 102.3 (2022): 449-480. online; McCann, Frank D. Brazil and the United States during World War II and its aftermath: negotiating alliance and balancing giants (Springer, 2018 ...
A drama about the Algerian struggle for independence from France after World War II. The Pearl Button: 2015 The documentary examines the fate of two persecuted groups in Chile - the indigenous peoples and the victims of Pinochet. Pedjuang: 1961 Film about protagonists of 1947 Indonesian war of liberation. Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide: 1971
This article provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899.Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America, the Taiping Rebellion in Asia, the Paraguayan War in South America, the Zulu War in Africa, and the Australian frontier wars in Oceania.
1550s accounts–based 1660s French map of Guanabara Bay. France Antarctique (formerly also spelled France antartique) was a French colony in Rio de Janeiro, in modern-day Brazil, which existed between 1555 and 1567, and had control over the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio.
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]