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The crew fired 50 shots from a distance of about three kilometres (1.9 mi) and lasted until about 11.00 a.m., targeting primarily the artillery batteries of Casino da Quinta da Vigia and Forte de São Tiago, the Estação do Cabo Submarino and the electricity generators facilities. Some projectiles hit civilian buildings, but caused no casualties.
The Madeira Archipelago Liberation Front (Portuguese: Frente de Libertação do Arquipélago da Madeira), or FLAMA (which could be read as an archaic Portuguese word for "flame", flama), was a right-wing terrorist paramilitary organisation from Madeira, whose main goal was to achieve Madeira's independence from mainland Portugal.
Memorial commemorating Gibraltarian evacuees in Madeira In July 1940, the civilian population of Gibraltar was evacuated due to expected attacks from Germany and Italy. At that time, Portuguese Madeira agreed to host about 2,500 Gibraltarian evacuees, mostly women and children, who arrived at Funchal between 21 July and 13 August 1940 and ...
The first meeting of the League of Combatants of the Great War took place on 16 October 1923, [1] at the office of the lawyer João Jaime Faria Afonso in Lisbon. [2] Faria Affonso had been lobbying for the creation of the League starting in 1919, but achieved little initial success.
Fábrica da Igreja da Paróquia de São Miguel da Sé de Castelo Branco: reconquista.pt: Região de Leiria: weekly: 1935: Leiria — Região de Leiria. Lda. regiaodeleiria.pt: Região Sul: weekly: 1993: Loulé — Navega Aqui - Publicações, Lda. regiao-sul.pt: Opinião Pública weekly 1991 Vila Nova de Famalicão 15,000 Editave Multimedia ...
The Madeira uprising, also referred to as the Island Revolt or the Revolt of the Deported, was a military uprising against the government of the National Dictatorship (1926–1933) that took place on the island of Madeira, beginning in the early hours of 4 April 1931.
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Madeira was at that time a part of the Iberian Union headed by the Monarchy of Spain. The Algerians had established a base on the islands of Cape Verde from which they operated against ships in the Atlantic. [3] In 1617 the Algerians arrived in Madeira with 8 vessels and 800 men. [1] They plundered the island and enslaved 1,200 inhabitants. [3]