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Brazil was also financially compensated by Germany for the lost coffee shipments and ships that were sunk by German U-boats during the war. [ citation needed ] From an economic point of view, although exports of latex and coffee initially fell sharply and created a crisis in the economy as the conflict continued, Brazil eventually began to find ...
1.4 Central Powers intervention in the Russian Civil War (1917/1918–1920) ... French conquest of Morocco (1914–1918 (as part of WW1)) (Co-belligerent conflict)
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 ...
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 ]
1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote. [1] 20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico. [2]
Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; Krupp 7.5 cm Model 1903; Naval artillery. BL 6-inch gun Mk V (Coast defence gun) Empire of Japan.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -China and Brazil on Friday pressed ahead with an effort to gather developing countries behind a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine, despite Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
One of the first land offensives in the Pacific theatre was the invasion of German Samoa on 29–30 August 1914 by New Zealand forces. The campaign to take Samoa ended without bloodshed after over 1,000 New Zealanders landed on the German colony, supported by an Australian and French naval squadron.