Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre
✓ Source-basedstableBrazilian statesman and military leader (1804-1875)
Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre, nicknamed "the Gloved Centaur", was a Brazilian army officer, politician and abolitionist. Born into a wealthy family of military background, Manuel Marques de Sousa joined the Portuguese Army in Brazil in 1817 when he was a child.
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Rio de Janeiro, capital of the Empire of Brazil, with the City Palace at the center
Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul province, seven years after the end of the Ragamuffin War
The countryside of the province of Rio Grande do Sul
Marques de Sousa (on horseback pointing his finger) leading the Brazilian 1st division during the Battle of Caseros
Porto Alegre at age 57, 1861
Detail of a painting by Frederico Tirone depicting Porto Alegre (center) during the constitutional oath of Princess Isabel in 1860
Porto Alegre around age 62, c. 1866Politicians from Brazil 6
About this person
Manuel Marques de Sousa, Count of Porto Alegre, nicknamed "the Gloved Centaur", was a Brazilian army officer, politician and abolitionist. Born into a wealthy family of military background, Manuel Marques de Sousa joined the Portuguese Army in Brazil in 1817 when he was a child. His military initiation occurred in the conquest of the Banda Oriental, which was annexed and became the southernmost Brazilian province of Cisplatina in 1821. For most of the 1820s, he was embroiled in the Brazilian effort to keep Cisplatina as part of its territory: first during the struggle for Brazilian independence and then in the Cisplatine War. It would ultimately prove a futile attempt, as Cisplatina successfully separated from Brazil to become the independent nation of Uruguay in 1828.
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