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Embassys or Diplomat Missions in Latin America years 1800

2006-11-21 16:01:04 · 1 answers · asked by juan_ferreira 1 in Politics & Government Embassies & Consulates

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Brazil was still under Portugal in 1800.
The connection between Portugal and Brazil was severed when Napoleon I and his armies invaded Portugal and Spain in 1807 and 1808. Napoleon, who had become emperor of France following the French Revolution (1789-1799), deposed and imprisoned the Spanish king Ferdinand VII in 1808. This left the Spanish American colonies isolated from royal control and set off a chain reaction that led to a series of long and bloody wars for independence. Brazil avoided a similar fate when the monarchy fled Lisbon shortly before French troops entered the city in 1807. With the help of their British allies, who were fighting Napoleon’s forces, the royal family and 10,000 Portuguese followers made an unprecedented voyage across the Atlantic to Brazil, transferring the center of the empire to Rio de Janeiro. For the first and last time in Western history, a European monarch would rule his empire from the colonies

2006-11-24 05:52:00 · answer #1 · answered by nonconformiststraightguy 6 · 0 0

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