The Division of Royal Volunteers of the Prince (Portuguese: Divisão de Voluntários Reais do Príncipe) later Division of Royal Volunteers of the King (Portuguese: Divisão de Voluntários Reais do Rei), following the prince's ascent to kingship, was a detachment of the Portuguese military, formed in 1815 and deployed to Rio de Janeiro on 30 March 1816.[1] The unit was commanded by Carlos Frederico Lecor, Viscount of Laguna.
The unit was formed on order of then-Prince Dom João VI, to consist of 5,000 men, and invaded the Banda Oriental (in modern Uruguay), as part of the Portuguese conquest of the Banda Oriental.[2] The unit occupied the city of Montevideo on 20 January 1817.[3]
References edit
- ^ Revista genealógica latina. 1525. pp. 2–.
- ^ Barbosa Lessa (2013). Rio Grande do Sul, Prazer em Conhecê-lo. Editora AGE Ltda. pp. 126–. ISBN 978-85-7497-022-6.
- ^ David Marley (1998). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. pp. 401–. ISBN 978-0-87436-837-6.
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