On December 9, 1824, troops led by General Antonio José de Sucre defeated the royalist army at the Battle of Ayacucho. For historians it was the decisive battle of Latin American liberation. After Ayacucho there were some small skirmishes and in one of them -the combat of Tumusla in Bolivian territo
The Empress D. Leopoldina , born Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary and Bohemia (etc.), was the first wife of Dom Pedro I and one of the builders of the countrys independence. By her marriage to D. Pedro, she was the first empress of Brazil and, for two months, queen of Portugal. Passion
Author:Gonzalo Búlnes Chilean Historian Bolognesi was a great patriot. He has the characteristic of superior men. No intemperate words or puerile bravado come from his mouth or from his pen. He is cultured and attentive to the enemy. When patriotism is wrapped in a cloak of modesty, the man disapp
Epitacio Pessoa was the 11th president of Brazil who ruled the country from 1919 to 1922, during the period known as República Velha, after the brief mandate of Delfim Moreira from Minas Gerais, thus breaking with the political system called “coffee with milk” whose oligarchy from São Paulo and mini