Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias
Brazilian hero and politician (1803-1880) · Brazil · Politicians · Died at 76
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María Ángela Furriol, the Hispanic American who may have been Caxias's fiancée
Ana Luísa de Loreto, wife of Caxias, as a child (bottom right) along with her siblings
Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, then-Baron of Caxias, around age 38, c. 1841
Sabará (pictured) was one of the towns Caxias marched into during the 1842 Liberal rebellion in Minas Gerais province
The then-Count of Caxias, around age 43, c. 1846
The steamship Dom Afonso, aboard which Caxias scouted the port area of Buenos Aires for a later canceled attack
Caxias around age 54, c. 1857Awards
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Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, nicknamed "o Pacificador" and "o Duque de Ferro", was an army officer, politician and monarchist of the Empire of Brazil. Like his father and uncles, Caxias pursued a military career. In 1823 he fought as a young officer in the Brazilian War of Independence against Portugal, then spent three years in Brazil's southernmost province, Cisplatina, as the government unsuccessfully resisted that province's secession in the Cisplatine War. Though his own father and uncles renounced Emperor Dom Pedro I during the protests of 1831, Caxias remained loyal. Pedro I abdicated in favor of his young son Dom Pedro II, whom Caxias instructed in swordsmanship and horsemanship and eventually befriended.
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