Brazilian Imperial Army soldiers during the Paraguayan War, 1864-70.

However, despite those efforts, the presence of the Armed Forces on the border regions of the Brazilian Amazon continues to be sparse and disperse, given the fact that the Army has just 28 border detachments in that area, a total of 1, 600 soldiers, or 1 men for every of borders.

The country was slowly being repopulated by former Brazilian soldiers who had fought in the War of the Triple Alliance, and Paraguay's government encouraged European immigration.

The Brazilian officers told him to surrender, and upon replying " Un coronel Paraguayo nunca se rinde " ( A Paraguayan Colonel never surrenders ) he was shot and killed by the allied soldiers.

However, the name seems to be actually a derivation of the Latin expression para bellum, which means " prepare for war " and was used to refer to the then official sidearm used by the Brazilian governmental troops and by some of the law enforcement soldiers, the Luger pistol, which was produced by the German arms maker DWM.

Brazilian soldiers kneeling before a religious procession during the Paraguayan War, 1868

More than 50, 000 Brazilian soldiers had died, and war costs were eleven times the government's annual budget.

It was also common for Brazilian soldiers to write on their mortars, " The Snake is smoking ..." (" A cobra está fumando ...")

" Barbudos, Sujos & Fatigados ; Soldados Brasileiros na II Guerra Mundial ( Bearded, Dirty & Tired ; Brazilian soldiers in World War II )" ( in Portuguese ); Grua Livros, 2010.

* Centro de Instrução de Guerra na Selva, a Brazilian Army school dedicated to train soldiers in jungle warfare.

Ammunition was brought for Brazilian soldiers in addition to 14 power generators and 30 vehicles, including trucks, ambulances and armored vehicles.

In the great earthquake that occurred in Haiti on January 12, 2010, eighteen Brazilian soldiers died.

File: MINUSTAH peacekeepers continue to work to find survivors after after an earthquake ( 12 january 2010 ). jpg | Brazilian Army soldiers in the rescue of survivors after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Image: Brazilian Army Parade. jpeg | Brazilian Army soldiers during the 2003 Independence Day Parade in Brasília.

File: Rocinha ocupação. 2008. JPG | Brazilian soldiers in Rio de Janeiro.

; The military reform: while trying to defend a fort, Policarpo sees lots of problems in the Brazilian military structure and sends a letter to the president, Floriano Peixoto, a rude and ignorant man, praying for better conditions for the war prisoners and the other soldiers of the fort.

The Prince Gaston, Count of Eu | Count of Eu ( with his hand on the waist, center-right ) with future Viscount of Rio Branco José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco | José Maria da Silva Paranhos, Sr. ( on his right ) and Taunay ( between the two ) among Brazilian soldiers during the Paraguayan War, in a photo dating from c. 1870

Witnesses report that Brazilian soldiers with the United Nations military mission opened fire after attempting to arrest one of the mourners.

Dom Pedro I, the Brazilian emperor, sent Colonel William Cotter back to Cotter's native Ireland to recruit Irish mercenary soldiers.

However, other geographers have had access to the same data since 2001, and a consensus has yet to emerge to support the claims of these Brazilian scientists.

Since 1648 the Brazilian Armed Forces have been relied upon to fight in defense of Brazilian sovereignty and to suppress civil rebellions.

Also in 2008 the Brazilian company Embraer showcased the Brazilian military transport aircraft, Embraer KC-390, and some countries already have shown interest in the aircraft, with France even placing orders.

These studies have been challenged by several Brazilian ministries, which assert that recent improvements in environmental laws, enforcement and public attitudes have fundamentally reduced the threat posed to forests by such projects.

Bokken have been made from Brazilian cherrywood ( Jatoba ), others from purpleheart, and even from lignum vitae.

Some of the well known individuals who have become involved include former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, former presidents of Chile Ricardo Lagos and Michelle Bachelet, actress Susan Sarandon, actors Jeremy Irons and Raul Bova, singers Céline Dion and Anggun, authors Isabelle Allende and Andrea Camilleri, musician Chucho Valdés and Olympic track-and-field legend Carl Lewis.

Several grappling styles like Judo, Shoot wrestling, Catch wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Sambo and several types of wrestling including Freestyle and Greco-Roman have gained global popularity.

Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.

Portuguese has for now two official written standards, respectively Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese, but in a short term it will have a unified orthography.

The Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht have been constructing two six-lane highways.

This was the origin of the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament ( later renamed UFC 1: The Beginning ) in the U. S. inspired by the Brazilian Vale tudo tradition and along with other minimal rule competitions, most notably those from Japan such as Shooto and Pancrase, have evolved into the combat sport of Mixed Martial Arts ( MMA ).

In July 2007, plans have been approved by the Brazilian Government to construct two hydroelectric dams on the Madeira River, the Santo Antonio Dam near Porto Velho and the Jirau Dam about 100km downstream.

However, sympathetic Paraguayan nationalists and foreign revisionist historians have portrayed Solano López as a patriot who resisted to his last breath Argentine and Brazilian designs on Paraguay.

Paraguay – Brazil relations have improved greatly after Brazilian President Lula's decision in 2009 to triple its payments to Paraguay for energy from a massive hydro-electric dam on their border, ending a long-running dispute.

The Brazilian psychedelic rock group Os Mutantes formed in 1966, although little known outside Brazil at the time, have since accrued a substantial international cult following.

Brazilian pizza in general, though, tends to have little or no tomato sauce, or uses slices of tomato in place of sauce.

Different types can be found, like Piccolo snares, that have a smaller depth for a higher pitch, rope-tuned snares ( Maracatu snare ) and the Brazilian " Tarol ", that commonly has snares on the top of the upper drumhead.

The Brazilian federal constitution does not have a supremacy clause with the same effects as the one on the U. S. constitution, a fact that is of interest to the discussion on the relation between treaties and state legislation.

Brazilian Imperial Topaz can often have a bright yellow to deep golden brown hue, sometimes even violet.

The carnival of Cape Verde, especially of Mindelo, have witnessed in recent years considerable influences from Brazilian carnival traditions.

He probably would have remained a well-respected but minor jazz figure had he not written an original number to fill out his covers of Antonio Carlos Jobim / Luis Bonfá tunes on his 1962 album, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus, inspired by the French / Brazilian film Black Orpheus, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The back and sides of a particular guitar are typically made of the same wood ; Brazilian or East Indian rosewood and Honduras mahogany are traditional choices, however, maple has been prized for the figuring that can be seen when it is cut in a certain way ( such as " flame " and " quilt " patterns ).

Since 1988, Brazilian administrative law has been strongly influenced by the judicial interpretations of the constitutional principles of public administration ( art.

As in most South American nations, the Brazilian Army (, ) has been the most influential of the services because of its size, deployment, and historical development.

Brazilian foreign policy has generally been based on the principles of multilateralism, peaceful dispute settlement, and non-intervention in the affairs of other countries.

The Brazilian foreign policy under the Lula da Silva administration had been focused on the following directives: to contribute toward the search for greater equilibrium and attenuate unilateralism ; to strengthen bilateral and multilateral relations in order to increase the country's weight in political and economic negotiations on an international level ; to deepen relations so as to benefit from greater economical, financial, technological and cultural interchange ; to avoid agreements that could jeopardize development in the long term.

In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.

Over the years, the Brazilian F94 line has been improved with several cosmetic changes and became more and more different from the German and Argentine models.

A new fleet of buses tailored for this system has been purchased from a Brazilian firm.

An ongoing co-operation program allows Namibian sailors and naval officers to be trained by the Brazilian Navy ; by 2009, 466 seamen had been trained.

Other research of importance to the study of linguistic relativity has been Daniel Everett's studies of the Pirahã people of the Brazilian Amazon.

In the early 1980s, after having been eclipsed by the popularity of disco and Brazilian rock, Samba reappeared in the media with a musical movement created in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro.

An ordering system has been proposed using this beginning and examples from both American Sign Language and Brazilian Sign Language ( LIBRAS ).

An eminent French astronomer, Emmanuel Liais, who was working for the Brazilian government in Rio de Janeiro in 1859, claimed to have been studying the surface of the Sun with a telescope twice as powerful as Lescarbault's at the very moment that Lescarbault said he observed his mysterious transit.

The first proposal for a Brazilian national park aimed at providing a pristine environment to " future generations ", just as " it had been created by God " and endowed with " all possible preservation, from the beautiful to the sublime, from the picturesque to the awesome " and " an unmatched flora " located in the " magnificent Iguaçú waterfalls ".

The construction works on the locks have been stalled for many years due to lack of funding, but it is possible that they will be included in a massive development program launched by the Brazilian government in 2007, in which case they could be operational within about four years.

Another account was documented by biologist George A. Boulenger from a Brazilian physician named Dr. Bach, who examined a man and several boys whose penises had been amputated.

Thalidomide has been used by Brazilian physicians as the drug of choice for the treatment of severe ENL since 1965.

In South America, also during the early 20th century, free-ranging boars were introduced in Uruguay for hunting purposes and eventually crossed the border into Brazil sometime during the 1990s, quickly becoming an invasive species, licensed private hunting of both feral boars and hybrids ( javaporcos ) being allowed from August 2005 on in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, although their presence as a pest had been already noticed by the press as early as 1994.