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Nevertheless, in early 1918, a confidential report commissioned by the presidential candidate elected that year, Rodrigues Alves, was completed. This report, regarding the entry of Brazil into the conflict, was coordinated by the parliamentary expert on foreign policy and military affairs, João Pandiá Calogeras. Dubbed the Calogeras Plan, it ...
1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War is an international, English-language online encyclopedia of the First World War.Deemed the largest research network of its kind, it officially went online on 8 October 2014. [1]
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 ...
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
There were two main lines of thought regarding Brazil's joining the war: One, led by Ruy Barbosa, called for joining the Entente; [11] another side was concerned about the bloody and fruitless nature of trench warfare, nurturing critical and pacifist feelings in the urban worker classes. Therefore, Brazil remained neutral in World War I until 1917.
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 ...
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 ...
The first tentative efforts to comprehend the meaning and consequences of modern warfare began during the initial phases of World War I; this process continued throughout and after the end of hostilities, and is still underway more than a century later.