Maria Quitéria de Jesus (1792-1853) was a Brazilian soldier who fought in Bahia for independence. She was the first woman to enter a military unit in Brazil. Who was Maria Quitéria? Maria Quitéria was born in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia, in 1792. She lived with her parents, but her mother
The material compiles the biography of the Ayacucho hero and little-known aspects of the military. The Ministry of Defense and Telefónica publish a book on “El brujo de los Andes”. ....When Colonel Cáceres loaded his bayonet on the pampas in front of Redoubt No. 1, the battle of Miraflores had begu
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese navigator and explorer responsible for finding, in 1500, the lands belonging to Brazil. He was born in 1467 at Belmonte Castle, in Beira Baixa, Portugal. His family, the Cabrais, was an ancient and wealthy Portuguese noble family. The Cabrais were of the line
The sugar mill designates the place where sugar was produced during the colonial period. These mills appeared in the 16th century, when sugarcane was planted in Brazil. They had buildings for grinding sugar cane, places to transform the juice into molasses and rapadura, a chapel, a house for the o