Brazilian Army
Land arm of the Brazilian Armed Forces.
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Brazilian Armed Forces
The Brazilian Armed Forces (Forças Armadas Brasileiras, ) are the unified military forces of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
Consisting of three service branches, it comprises the Brazilian Army (including the Brazilian Army Aviation), the Brazilian Navy (including the Brazilian Marine Corps and Brazilian Naval Aviation) and the Brazilian Air Force (including the Aerospace Operations Command).
Eurico Gaspar Dutra
Brazilian military leader and politician who served as the 16th president of Brazil from 1946 to 1951.
With, although modest, Brazil's participation in the war on the Allied side, and the growing pressure from civil society for democratization of the country, Dutra formally adhered to the idea of the end of the regime that started in 1930, participating in the following deposition of Getúlio Vargas in October 1945, continuing the interventionist doctrine, practiced at the time by the Brazilian army.
Brazilian Expeditionary Force
The Brazilian Expeditionary Force (Força Expedicionária Brasileira, FEB), nicknamed Cobras Fumantes (literally "the Smoking Snakes"), was a military division of the Brazilian Army and Air Force that fought with Allied forces in the Mediterranean Theatre of World War II.
Getúlio Vargas
Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 14th and 17th president of Brazil, from 1930 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1954.
He joined the Army in 1898 despite his father's requests not to, enlisting as a private in the 6th Infantry Battalion for one year and was promoted to sergeant in 1899.
Air marshal
Three-star air-officer rank which originated in and is used by the Royal Air Force.
However, its highest rank is marechal-do-ar, the equivalent to a Brazilian Army marshal.
Military dictatorship in Brazil
Established on 1 April 1964, after a coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United States government, against President João Goulart.
The coup was planned and executed by the most forefront commanders of the Brazilian Army and received the support of almost all high-ranking members of the military, along with conservative elements in society, like the Catholic Church and anti-communist civil movements among the Brazilian middle and upper classes.
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti
Acronym of the French name, was a UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti that was in operation from 2004 to 2017.
The mission's military component was led by the Brazilian Army and the force commander was Brazilian.
Vargas Era
Period in the history of Brazil between 1930 and 1945, when the country was governed by President Getúlio Vargas.
Even worse, was the fear that a more powerful Argentine Army would launch a surprise attack on the weaker Brazilian Army.
Ragamuffin War
Republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835.
The Brazilian Army reorganized itself to be a proper fighting force during the Ragamuffin War.
Portuguese Army
Land component of the Armed Forces of Portugal and is also its largest branch.
This war assumed a character of a kind of a civil war, with the forces loyal to the Portuguese Government fighting the separatist army whose leaders and officers were also mostly Portuguese.